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PATONG, THAILAND - JANUARY 3: Two tourists soak up the sun on Patong Beach, January 3, 2005 in Patong, Thailand. Local hotel owners are encouraging vacationers to return to the beach and despite the massive clean up continuing around them holidaymakers are slowly heading back to the devastated beach.The current death toll from last weeks deadly tsunami currently stands at 156,000. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)