Bang Tabun

Bang Tabun is a waterside and coastline community that has been referenced in Thai history since the late Ayutthaya period.

In the year 1831 corresponds to the early Rattanakosin period, Sunthorn Phu had traveled here and wrote a poem in his work entitled "Nirat Mueang Phet" (Journey to Phetchaburi).

At the estuary where the Bang Tabun River empties into the sea is a large fertile mangrove forest and home to a fishing village.

Bang Tabun has the status of a tambon (sub-district) of Ban Laem District, northeast of Phetchaburi Province.

Local people make a living by fisheries and raising blood cockles as well as other types of bivalves, such as mussels, oysters.