Monks collecting alms

Our friend Dobby

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June 14th 2012
Laos was the first place we felt quite sad to leave it’s a beautiful country with fascinating, likeable people. In our last blog we forgot to mention that in Luang Prabang there is an early morning Monk procession for alms down the main town street - an early start about 6am. We'd been advised not to miss it and had also been carrying around a substantial amount of Laos money passed to us fr ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Eastern Thailand » Koh Chang

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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