The Peak We Climbed

Khao Sok National Park

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February 9th 2009
Today we are off to the Khao Sok National Park for 4 days and 3 nights. We get picked up from our hotel by a private 4wd air con pick up truck - very nice - for a 2 1/2 hour drive to a place called Treetops which is on the edge of the National Park. After driving for about 1 1/2 hours we pass a resort where our driver tells us about 4500 people died in the tsunami. We drive past a 20 metre or 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