Ash gazing out from Doi Suthep

Intro to Thailand

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July 28th 2007
Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport is a glimpse of the future. After four months in India and Nepal it really did feel like we’d stepped off in to a space station. The building itself appears from the docking station, looking out of the plane window, to be a mess of glass and steel twisting around itself in a vaguely caterpillar-like shape, emanating dark blue. Once inside the efficiency took us b ... read more

Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

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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