On those last days and how we almost got stranded at Suvarnabhumi Airport
January 30th 2008 An air-con bus brought me from Kanchanaburi to Bangkok, my final destination. The three-hour ride passed quickly as I was reading not one, but two great books (a Chinese classic Tao Te Ching by Lao Tze and an autobiography of Lee Iaccoca). On my arrival to a bus station in the capital my friends were already waiting for me in the centre, but I still had almost one hour long taxi ride left to go. T
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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 
