A Temple...

"Never Trust a Tuk-Tuk Driver..."

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October 1st 2006
...Or so we were warned on the way from the airport. After a nice and easy flight, we touched down in Bangkok, Thailand at about 6pm local time. The new airport had only opened the day before (though I hear it's been in planning stages for about 40 years). It's also huge. nobody seems to know anything about getting to Bangkok from it (apart from the Taxi drivers who seem know everything, and tha ... 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