Baan Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park — Phang Nga, Thailand

This memorial stands where the 2004 tsunami devastated a fishing village, holding the story of loss in a space shaped for collective remembrance. Its design—spare, quiet, oriented toward sea and sky—embodies how memorial landscapes can support grief without prescribing how it should be felt. Visiting this site deepened my understanding of how trauma, community memory, and elemental forces can converge to form spaces that honor both vulnerability and resilience.