A water taxi - Very impressive roaring up and down the Chao Praya River

Bangkok - people

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April 27th 2009
Bangkok has an amazing mix of people. The Thai people here seem very focused, and clearly enjoy living a middle class lifestyle on the whole, given the type of high quality Western brand shops that are common and streetwise the relatively low numbers of beggars for a major city. I know it’s a different picture in the countryside, but I haven’t has the chance to see that in any detail.. Perhaps ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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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