Day 106 to 119 (May 15 - 28) Thailand - Week 3 & 4 with our Volunteer Explore group
May 28th 2006 blog by Bronia
"Sawadeeka/krap" ("hello") from Thailand - formerly known as Siam.
Well we are fully into Thailand and the Thai culture now. Our guide Lucky recently gave us Thai names for fun - Bronia's is "Pai Lin" meaning a "Thai red ruby" and Dave's is "Ma-nop" which means... wait for it.... "handsome one/good angel" - don't know what went wrong there !!
Our last blog left you in the
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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 
