Khao San Road

Bang... Bang... Bangkok!

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June 6th 2008
Alrighty, so before I go into details of the Bangkok experience, I would like to expand a bit on the concept of the "hell bus", as I skimped down the description quite considerably in my last post. This fabled "hell bus" is known to all who travel by bus from the city of Battambang to the Cambodia-Thai border (known as the Poipet/Aranyaprathet border, if we're getting into the details). One of ... 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