Survivor 5 Location -Thailand, Island of Ko Tarutao

Tarutao National Park
The Park is the first marine national park of Thailand. The park consists of 51 islands covering the area of 151square kilometers and could be divided into two main parts, i.e., Tarutao and Mu Ko Adang-Rawi. Ko Tarutao is the biggest island in the park. There are many attractive beaches, waterfalls, caves, viewpoints; beautiful coral reefs accommodated various kinds of sea fauna and historical sites-ruined prisons. Tarutao - the name in Malay means "old, mysterious and primitive". For centuries a home of the Chao Lay sea-going gypsies, later a penal colony and place of detention for political prisoners. Becoming, during the rough and lawless days of World War II a pirates' haven, until a 300-man volunteer group from the Royal British Navy landed in March 1964 and weeded out the trouble-making buccaneers, who preyed on the cargo, fishing and passenger ferry boats that piled the upper Malacca Strait. After the departure of the English, Tarutao slept peacefully, except for visiting fishmen; the island, virtually abandoned, returned to Mother Nature and the wild underbrush, left untamed, did the rest. In 1974 Tarutao and the 51 islands in the group, were declared Thailand's first national maine park, and a new era had happily begun.