long tail boat

Oh Monkeys!!!!

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May 27th 2007
In my last entry I was about to go off on a sunset snorkelling trip. It was pretty incredible. We went out on a big boat and stopped at a small beach and snorkelled our way to land where we were greeted by about thirty monkeys! They swam up to us and we were given fruit to feed them. Then we got back on the boat and went to a cove that was surrounded by limestone cliffs. We kayaked through them a ... 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