Thursday morning we were met at our hotel by Gerry our tour guide for the day, firstly he took us to the royal palace of Bangkok, the king wasn't in residence as he obviously hadn't been informed that we were visiting, actually he doesn't reside there anymore and only goes there on state occassions, the Thai people absolutely love their king and there is pictures up of him everywhere, his name is King Lamai 9th, no doubt i will give tell you the full history on my return. The palace was out of this world the arcitecture of all the buildings in the ground had different influences lots of chinese influence with all the different coloured mosiac tiles and lots of gold leaf one of the building was done in the style of Buckingham palace although
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