Background: A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy. In alliance with Japan during World War II, Thailand became a US ally following the conflict. Thailand is currently facing armed violence in its three Muslim-majority southernmost provinces.
July 25th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Samui Day 27- Friday
We are filling in a quiet afternoon prior to our flight at 6pm to Bangkok connectiong with our midnight flight to Athens. There have been a number of challenges over the last few day ... [full story]
July 25th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Samui Here are some photos:
Well as usual... the internet cafe has a problem with sending the photos... If you know the amount of hassles there have been with power outages...vanihing text etc... I cou ... 1 photos[full story]
July 24th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Samui Gettings from Southern Thailand where we have been for about 2 weeks. First on the W coast at Phuket swimming in the warm blue Andaman Sea. Then we travel to a beautiful area around Phan Ngan and went ... [full story]
July 23rd 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Samui Saa er vi paa Koh Samui. Det tog os 9 timer at komme hertil med long tail baad, gammel ramponeret bus, mindre ramponeret bus, ramponeret bus igen, faerge og saa en ramponeret minivan...Saa det var en ... 5 photos[full story]
July 23rd 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Samui Normally we wouldn't feel the need to post twice in one day, but the Ko Samui airport has convinced us otherwise.
The whole airport is totally open air - security, baggage, everything. It's like th ... [full story]
July 23rd 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Samui Well, we got to koh Samui and kind of got stuck!!! Nothing bad, we are just having a fab time here so why move on?
We are staying at a little place called silver sands which is a hut by the beach a ... 6 photos[full story]
July 23rd 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Samui
I'm an open water scuba diver!! I stayed in Ko Phangan (with Mark and Krystal) an extra night to complete the course. It was 2 days of 7 am starts and drills and tests and 4 open water dives.
It ... [full story]
July 23rd 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Samui WoW! the past couple days have been a little nuts (well nuts for thailand time) we've been trying to a lot of things but also relax on the beach. Well last time we wrote we were on our way to the FULL ... 5 photos[full story]
July 23rd 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Samui I hope everyone appreciates the frequent updates. Today we had to go to two different places, got a virus (i think), got electrocuted (weird voltage through the usb port or something) and had to step ... 17 photos[full story]
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