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Aranyaprathet-Poi Pet Border  
   

Aranyaprathet-Poi Pet Border

Interesting though how they've built a host of casinoes in the No-Man's Land between the two countries' checkpoints. From my observation, primarily to entertain retired Thai uncles and aunties, and staffed by Thai-speaking Cambodians.
Bangkok (29 Jun-4 Sep 13)

September 6th 2013
And so yet another two months has flown by, and I've reached the end of my third extended stint in Bangkok. It's perhaps not surprising that with each stay, I've found myself doing the touristy things less and less, and getting increasingly more into a sedate routine. With weekday mornings occupied by my Thai classes, I've found less need to run around trying to take in the tourist ... read more
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Thai Flag 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
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