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Environmental Enforcement Museum-November 2024

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Nov 7, 2024

　　In the Pasyar Travel & Tours complex, this is a worthy and important museum that displays confiscated chainsaws, boats, dynamite and (sometimes) animals such as civets.

　　It needs all the support it can get as local governments do not promote it (quite the opposite), and group-tour operators tend to not make this a stop.

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