Step into my parlor

Guts, fortitude and fish sauce

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April 18th 2007
I (Leslie) read other people's accounts of their recent visits to Ko Phi Phi. The reports were pretty negative overall: Phi Phi's overpriced now, full of debris, noisy with construction, etc. But despite all the reports, I decided we should go. Like when there's a traffic accident and you just have to look, I just had to see the effects of the tsunami and how different the island was since my fir ... 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