The resort, whose 15 tents each measure some 600 square feet (1, 000 if you count the sundeck) under a 13-foot ceiling, was the brainchild of superstar landscape architect Bill Bensley, who wanted to bring the great camps of Botswana to the remote elephant-filled jungle of Thailand and offer even better service.

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As if to celebrate some unprecedented triumph in the agricultural sphere, of the sort that leads to an undreamed-of surplus, the survivors (and, one sometimes suspects, the sick and wounded) of the nation's turkey-camps are rounded up and executed for a second great annual immolation.

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