Patong

Last stop before home

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March 4th 2013
<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day 498 Wednesday 20th February We landed at Yangon (Rangoon) Myanmar (Burma) at 5.30am local time after flying for 10 hours and we had to hop off the plane for an hour whilst they refuelled and changed crew. Underway again we flew another 2 hours to Phuket where we landed at 9 ... 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