Lying buddha

Another border crossing

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June 8th 2006
We had heard that the travel from Siem Reap to the border was a nightmare, the road was unsealed and bumpy as bumpy and the whole journey had taken some people about 15 hours to get to Bangkok (total trip only about 450km!). We arranged with a British couple from our hotel to share a taxi to the Cambodia/Thailand border to make it cheaper, this part of the journey took us about 3 hours and was qui ... 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