Crowded

Banter but lack of tigre

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January 22nd 2007
On Sunday we got up around midday to go to Chatuchak weekend market with two lasses from the hostel, Shelley and Helena. The guidebook described the market as being a place where you could buy anything including baby tigers, iguanas and monkeys… Therefore we were in more of zoo-visiting mood than a shopping mood, with tiredness and hangovers taking their toll as we tried to mooch through seas of ... 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