looking out to sea

Phangan, Tao and Krabi

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March 19th 2011
19th So we arrived in Surat Thani at 5 a.m. not a good time when you've had hardly any sleep and it's surprisingly cold. We got herded into a small open bus station that was more of a shed. Our onward bus wasn't until 7:30 so we had a bit of a wait. After an attempted sleep our bus turned up and got us to the ferry terminal, from there we were off to Koh Phangan. We arrived on t ... 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