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Thailand

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January 19th 2007
Hello from Thailand! Well we jumped off the plane after 11 hours and promptly jumped into a barbi pink taxi, which took us to central backpacker district in Bangkok, with a thai man called Steve who works, when he's got enough money, in the Bronx so could speak english and gave us some awesome advice which was lucky. Then walking around was really overwhelming, not only because it was such a cu ... 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