Us at the Terracotta Warriors

Technical disaster strikes and the rains arrive.

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July 21st 2006
As normal we should excuse ourselves for not having blogged for ages. Sorry! We are now in Bangkok, Thailand suffering in a muggy heat that is comparable to what is going on in the UK at the moment. We finally managed to drag ourselves away from Mongolia, and headed down through the Gobi desert, through Inner Mongolia (China) and into Shanxi and indeed Shaanxi Provinces. We stopped in th ... 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