View from the subway

MBK- Shopping Extravaganza in Bangkok

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April 17th 2012
Our first full official day in Bangkok. The temperature is a nice sweltering 34degress with fair humidity. We decide to go to MBK on our first day. This shopping area is one of the MUST see's in Bangkok. Although classified as a "mall", this place has about 8 floors of shopping with hundreds and hundreds of vendors on each floor. Each floor is divided up into main types of shopping. For exampl ... 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