Wat Traimit - 5.5 tonne Golden Buddha

The big city

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June 10th 2007
Dear friends and blogbrowsers, We arrived in Bangkok feeling rather grimey after our overnight train trip from Chiang Mai. We had a breakfast of iced coffee/chocolate and pastries at the train station. It had been weeks since I'd had a good coffee! We had some time to kill (5 hours!) before we could check into our hotel. There was a tourist information centre at the railway station that was quit ... read more

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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