Skybar, Bangkok

Trudge over the river Kwai

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January 7th 2006
For our final night in Bangkok, we headed downtown to the Skybar at the Sirocco, an open-air restaurant 64 floors above street level- a world record. From here, you can lean over the railing while you sip your Cosmopolitan and drop cocktail olives on those less fortunate below you. Linda got chatted up by a drunken Finn; to reassert my authority I led her to the dance floor and we shuffled about t ... 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