Indian Restaurant in Bangkok

The Final Stretch

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June 14th 2006
Part XVII …contd. 14th / 15th June - Wednesday/Thursday Our Thai Airways flight left for Bangkok at 21:30 so we were in plenty of time and had drinks and nibbles in the Business Class Lounge. One of the first surprises about Bangkok is that the city is not called Bangkok in the Thai language. It is called Krung Thep ('the City of the Angels') and the name Bangkok refers strictly to only ... 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