Lee eating a beetle

Surat Thani and first day in Bangkok

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March 31st 2009
We left Koh Smelly on the morning of the 30th March and arrived back in Surat Thani on the mainland in the early afternoon to be greeted by a crowd of touts trying to sell us bus tickets to various places. We have been warned about various scams that people lure you into in Thailand and many of them are to do with bus tickets offered by touts so we grabbed our bags off the coach and went in search ... 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