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Wat Traimit (Golden Buddah) and Chinatown

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January 14th 2014
Hello again my blogging buddies.I am not one to lay low for too long so today I went off to visit a couple more of Bangkok's must see sights.The demonstrators are still out there at the 7 intersections in the city but on my walk about today I saw no evidence of the shut down of Bangkok other than a few people on the Skytrain presumably heading to the demonstrations. I headed to Chinatown to ... 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