buddha

monks, monkeys and monkfish

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July 5th 2008
Today is our last day in chiang mai. leaving for a small village nearby called pai in the morning. woke up very late today as we spent last night drinking (buckets of Samsong) and talking rubbish with a dutch couple we met in a bar. Had a great day yesterday, got a tuk-tuk in the morning out to the monkey centre a few miles away to watch macaques playing basketball, riding bicycles (hee hee hee) a ... 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