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 Tao I am doing well with my volunteer project. I have been busy with daily beach clean-ups, teaching the kids swimming on the weekends, hiking and surveying a grass planting area after a massive rockslid ... 7 photos[full story]
July 17th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Tao Heyy!
Weve just spend 5 amazing days on koh tao! 4 of which i took my open water diver course! I think iv wrote about getting there in my last blog with the sleeper boat and everything which was a ... 4 photos[full story]
July 16th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Tao Today we decided that we had had enough of being lazy and sitting around so we decided to stroll to the south of the island to see what was happening in the other bay. We set off at around 11am and he ... 4 photos[full story]
July 15th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Tao We both woke up far too early with unexpected hangovers. (It later turned out that the beer was mcuh stronger than we were lead to believe!!!). Eventually we dragged ourseleves from our bed and headed ... 7 photos[full story]
July 13th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Tao Hello All!
We have arrived in Thailand and are loving our new life here on Ko Tao. We will be here for about 2 months. We arrived after a long flight to stay in a fancy hotel in Bangkok. It was ... 12 photos[full story]
July 13th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Tao Hello!!!!
We were supposed to go to Krabi, but never actually made it there for longer than 5 minutes! When we arrived there we met a 4th Girl called Laura! We then decided to save a nights accomod ... [full story]
July 16th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Tao hey all. we never stayd in Krabi in the end, we got there and decided to get an overnight boat straight to ko tao to save time and money on accomodation. the boat was the hottest thing ever and the be ... [full story]
July 7th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Tao I've just been riding around the roads of Koh Tao on a Quad Bike while taking in the spectacular views of the island. Koh Tao has developed considerably since my last stay way back in 2002, but it sti ... 4 photos[full story]
July 16th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Tao Hey all just a quick one to describe how much fun my dives were! It was really good that claire was here because i would have been a bit lonely with jo doing a four day course, doing 10 hours a day! S ... [full story]
July 16th 2008Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Tao Hi Guys! Loads to catch up on from Koh tao, we've had a really busy four days, but they've been amazing!
The journey to Koh Tao was god-awful. After boarding our first ferry we arrived very hot and ... [full story]
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