Elephant Krall

Biking around Ayutthaya

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May 31st 2007
Tough week at school. Teaching 7 year old English kids must be hard. Teaching 7 year old Thai kids who have no idea what you are saying and have no english books to use is next to impossible. I've started to learn a lot of Thai just so I can explain what i'm saying to them, but because the language is so tonal and distinctive, they don't understand a lot of my Thai either. Needless to say, incred ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Ayutthaya

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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.... ... read more