All Dressed up and ready to go to temple

Ban Pon

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August 29th 2006
OK - Now this is real Thailand - Ban Pon (nor it's province Kalasin) isn't even covered in the Lonely Planet - and I was the only farang in the village. We (Tao, Aiew, and I) arrived in the wee hours of Monday morning - the bus dropped us off just after 3am. We wandered through the dimly lit village, deserted except for the dogs, to Tao's family house. Tao's mother opened the door for us, led ... 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