Swing your (long) pants

Bonkers Bangkok

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August 12th 2008
Back in Bangkok for the final time before returning home...after the tranquility of the islands we'd forgotten about the strange aromas, bustling streets, noisy street sellers and crazy roads which are impossible to cross!! We set off to visit the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew Temple. Knowing to enter such places you have to have shoulders and knees covered we were well prepared (Matt wearing ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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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