Bus stop

Monkeys stole my trousers, and other tales from Asia

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March 16th 2007
As arrivals into new countries go, this was not the most auspicious. We were about 10 miles into Cambodia when our bus's engine abruptly died and refused to be coaxed back into life. The random pile of belts the driver salvaged from the engine bay suggested that we were going nowhere fast. And so it proved: minutes stretched into hours, the shadows grew longer and we repaired to a bar down the roa ... read more

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Railay

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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