on december the 26th, 2004, when the people were still addicted to happiness on christmas, the strong earthquake, which took place in indonesia, caused heavy tsunami. in the turn of a hand, the famous phuket island of tourist attraction of thailand that has enjoyed the reputation of “heaven in human world” was turned into “the hell on earth”. for the people who were rescued from this calamity, this essentially peaceful christmas vacation has been the inly-indelible drop shadows. when some visitors who had just brushed past the death talked about the experience at the time, they have not yet recovered from a fright. here is a grisly experience of a newspaperwoman: the ocean suddenly disappeared…

　　december the 26th, the newspaperwoman yi linyang of “strait times” was taking a holiday in phuket island with her husband. before the tsunami came, they were ing in monkey beach. however, when they were getting ready to leave by boat, the weirdy happened! they saw the ocean suddenly disappeared! the boat took the ground by the reeves, there were jumping fish here and there.

　　nobody had seen that before, everyone was frightened out of his wits for the moment. when all the people didn’t wake up to what had happened, the seawater surged ahead and washed back, and the huge billow went straight from the distant place. yi linyang’s heart still fluttering with fear, she said: “we ran desperately, no one would know how far would the seawater chase us…”

　　can you see? it was the first locale of the tsunami of indonesia.