It doesn't take long to find bliss - and at $10 an hour, no less. Within a few hours of reaching Koh Phi Phi Don island, off Thailand's west coast, I was lying prone in a massage pavilion beside a ...

Deacon Ned Berghausen, foreground right, is pictured helping carry a tsunami survivor to safety after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck Thailand. He was 24 years old at the time and The deacon, ...

A man caught up in a devastating tsunami 20 years ago has recalled the final moments before his older brother was swept away by the water. Luke Simon, from Somerset, was celebrating Christmas with his ...

"It's hard [for the younger generation] to understand that it wasn't so easy," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy Soffie Modin was on holiday on Koh Phi ...

On December 26 2004 a tsunami hit south-east Asia.Caused by an undersea earthquake involving the Burma and Sunda Plates, located below the Indian Ocean, the tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean to ...

There was a point when Laura Wales, 29, almost gave up. The Stanford University marketing student had been swept out of her bungalow by a massive wave that thrashed her under debris and across the ...

Stanford student James Hsu was visiting friends in a bungalow at the northern end of Koh Phi Phi in Thailand on Sunday morning. It was the end of his first trip to Asia -- Cambodia, Singapore and ...