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Northern Thailand

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July 5th 2007
The Bus to Thailand Our 8 hour bus to Huai Xai (and the border to Thailand) set off around 8am. Now very used to bus-ing it about Laos, we were not surprised when everyone was piled off the bus half way and told to walk up the muddy hill while the bus was towed by a heavy goods vehicle... but other than that the journey went as smooth as possible on an unfinished road. Once at the ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Northern Thailand

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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