Bangkok

Day 11 - "Downtown - everything's waiting for you"

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March 30th 2012
Exhaustion. We spent all day in Bangkok, shopping and walking. We went to two giant shopping centers, a local market, and we passed a lot of street shops on the busy sidewalks. The first shopping center had 6 floors but wasn’t that enormous. We walked around every floor, then had lunch at the top floor before moving on. The other shopping center had 7 floors, but you could have hid the Titanic o ... 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