Samut Prakan (26 Aug 12) Photo 10

Samut Prakan (26 Aug 12)

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August 26th 2012
For those of you who've missed me, here are some photos from a one-day trip I made to nearby Samut Prakan, a short one hour bus ride away from downtown Bangkok. Despite already having spent over a month in Thailand, this was in fact the first time I was taking the public bus! Previously, for my inter-city journeys I'd relied on a combination of tourist buses, minivans and trains, so with 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