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Elephant Nature Park and the best birthday

May 7th 2008
Emma Writes The mighty Asian Elephant now numbers less than 30,000. No longer used by the legal and illegal logging trade to haul huge trees, decimating their own natural environment, the remaining workers have mostly been turned into tourist attractions. These symbols of strength now carry, mostly western, tourists around on spine breaking seats, perform demeaning tricks begging on the ... 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

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Route so far: England to Ecuador, to Peru, to Bolivia and into Brazil quickly - for Rio Carnaval, then Argentina and Chile and over to New Zealand for a month, into Australia for a quick visit to lots of lovely friends and plans now are to visit Asia for a few months. We're not very good at keeping the blog up to date, due mostly to being places where the internet isn't always around, or working, or the fact that we're a bit slow. In fact our blog is very much like London buses, zero contact for about a month, and then 3 epic installments that will clog up your inbox, sorry about that. W... full info

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