Laos - Luang Prabang, Phonsovan, Vang Vieng, Vientiane, Vietnam - Hanoi, Hue, Hoi An, flying visit to Ho Chi Minh, Cambodia - Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Angkor...and back to Bangkok
July 13th 2007 Really meant to get my act together and not leave it so long between blogs, somehow this didn't happen. I can partly blame the crap internet connections in Laos and Vietnam, and partly me.... the plan to make it shorter didn't seem to work that well last time; Rod, one of my friends who I'm travelling with, encapsulated it by saying, "I read your blog. Well, some of it. It does go on and on..."
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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 
