Elephant Temple

The travelling bit........

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January 4th 2009
I arrived in Chiang Mai in the afternoon on the 31st December and basically slobbed out for a few hours before I even thought that it was new years eve!! I met all of the other volunteers in the group, most of whom are girls taking a gap year before university, and a few others and then started to get ready for going out for New Year. We went for food (I was very excited at my first journey in a S ... 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