Mekong stage 2

To Laos and the East

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August 14th 2006
Day 1 After a pretty quiet last night in Chiang Mai, which included a brief moment of "getting lost" in the depths of Thai Chiang Mai (vs touristy Chiang Mai). We were up at the crack of dawn (7:30am) to board the bus to Chiang Rai and onto the border town of Chiang Khong (7hrs in the smallest seat we've come across to date). Where we met a Swiss bloke by the name of Christopher (later referred ... 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