Emerald Budda

Riany season in Thailand

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October 12th 2007
I called my dad to wish him a happy birthday yesterday and realised that it was exactly three years to the day that I left New Zealand for Canada. I'm quite shocked, it snuck up on me. To celebrate my third year anniversary I went a played Platonk with a group of Thia's that I had meet the night before. They play every night in the grounds of a temple in Sukhathai. It was really entertaining as th ... 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