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Pay at Hotel. Chantaburi, the city of moon is a province in the southeast of Thailand. The significance of the city of moon is shown in the provincial seal which display is the moon surrounded by an aura. Inside the moon is a rabbit, stemming from a Thai folk story in which the dark areas of the moon formed the shape of a rabbit.
The seal symbolizes the peace, tranquility, and kindness of the province. Chantaburi Is a province in the southeast of Thailand. The southern part of the province is set on the shore of the Gulf of Thailand and is mostly coastal plains, and typical of a relaxed, mellow, serene beach town. Inland from the beaches, the province is quite mountainous as is much of Thailand. The highest elevation in the province is about meters high at Soi Dao Nua Peak. The main river of the province is the Chanthaburi River.
Another industry that keeps the town going is fruit production. In , Chanthaburi produced nearly , tons of durian, which was just under half of durian production that year. Every May or June, there is a fruit festival held here to celebrate the abundance of fruit. After the Paknam crisis in , the French colonist troops occupied Chanthaburi, only giving it back in when Thailand conceded territory in the western part of Cambodia.
A significant population of the citizens who live here are natively Vietnamese who came here in the early part of the nineteenth century to escape persecution.
