The longtial boat

The elephants and the floating markets

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June 5th 2006
We woke up early, refreshed from our early nights sleep. We then boarded a mini-van that took us to the bus depot where we joined other keen tourists to travel to the famous floating markets. It was a wonderful day. First we stopped at a coconut sugar factory (for want of a better word) where we tasted the sugar, and saw how it was made. The place was pretty cool, they had siamese fighting fis ... 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