First Day

Lions and Tigers and a Bear named Maam Maam

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October 6th 2008
I arrived at the Tiger Temple just as the day's activities had ended. The temple is located in Kanchanaburi province, which is about 2.5 hours west of Bangkok near the Burma (Myanmar) border. The local bus I had taken from Kanchanaburi had dropped me off along the highway and I was about halfway into the two kilometer walk to the temple entrance when one of the staff members spotted me and gave ... 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