on the way to cambodia border

Bangkok

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August 5th 2013
We all probably know that famous line from that famous, overplayed sequal about three drunks in Bangkok. After a few days there, I don’t really get it. Sure, it’s a big city, and an Asian one at that, with an obvious element to it, but, compared to any big city we’d visited in India, I thought it was fairly tame. In truth, I’d be much more nervous toddling around the deep southside of Chic ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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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