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Thai  Flag 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]
Blog: Bangkok, Thailand
Date: April 11th 2008

Helaine and I are a couple of weeks into our 4 month trip through Asia. It has been pretty incredible so far. I saw Everest for the first time a few days ago as we were flying out of Bhutan, and we spent this morning boating down the Mekong River in Luang Prubang, Laos. I haven't had as much time for the blog as I thought thus far, but I wanted to drop in a couple of excerpts from my journal wi ... read more


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