Sleepy Tiger

Temples Tigers and Trekking

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July 5th 2011
This morning we woke up and went to Wat Doi Suthep. It took a while to get up there, we had to wait for a lot of people to show up at the Tuk Tuk station before someone was willing to take us up there. Once there we wandered around for an hour hitting bells around the temple. Inside the temple there was a lot of Buddha statues and I got blessed by a monk. It was pretty cool. After the temple a ... 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