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Khao Sok

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February 10th 2006
From the beaches to the rainforest, our next stop was the Khoa Sok National Park, created by the damming of a large lake somewhere nearby. This is our first visit to a Thai jungle and we were expecting to see tigers, elephants and enormous flowers that smell of dead meat. What we actually managed to see were lots of very big spiders, a sloth, some gibbons and the eyes of a Civet cat (alledgedly, ... 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