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Julie says: Trek Talk

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November 22nd 2007
Ok, so Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We just got back from a 3 day, 2 night "trek" into Doi Inthanon National Park. Yup, 2 nights in the jungle. Really, it was more of a guided hike than an adventure tour, but cool nonetheless. We started the tour by taking an elephant ride, which I could have lived without and Alex thought was ok. Then we hiked uphill for about 3 hours, up to a village in the m ... 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