another flattering photo

Sugar high monkeys, rabid tourists and Patong at night

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March 8th 2009
Okay, cue the music! (think King Kong inspired jungle beat…) Yesterday Jian and I ventured via foot, bus and boat to Koh Phi Phi and surrounding Islands off the coast of Phuket. This was an organised tour, so I went into it with the philosophy of friend-making. But alas, all we got were snobby Sweedes, two ultra-cutesy Asian girls and a small spattering of other closed off and generally unfrien ... 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