View from Our Hotel Balcony

After docking in Laem Chabang, we were coached about 80 miles to Bangkok, where we all checked in to the Shangri-La Hotel for our overnight. This is a view of the Chao Phraya River. The big building across the river is The Peninsula Hotel.

Bangkok, Thailand Day 1

March 20th 2010
After a day at sea, we had a nice dinner last night with some world cruise friends, Carol and Tom Ross and Ralph and Alma Michael from Pennsylvania. Carol and Tom are very good bridge players, formerly from Palo Alto and now in a nice Del Webb golf community in Lincoln, CA. Unfortunately, not long after our dinner, Ralph and Alma had to leave the ship as Ralph’s health was failing. As Thailand� ... 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

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