Which colour please?

Bangkok

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January 19th 2007
We took a short, cheap and badly scheduled flight from Kochi to Chennai (6800 Rs for both of us), and sat in the Chennai airport for 10 hours. When we booked the noon flight, we assumed we would be let into the passengers' waiting section of the airport where we could try and find a Thailand guidebook and have a bite to eat. Of course it didn't work that way - the Chennai airport was surprisingly ... 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