there's a monkey butt on my shoulder

Hey, little friends of the jungle, there's no fighting in paradise!

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July 30th 2006
Hi! I hope you all are doing great. I spent a few more days in Koh Samui and had a lot of fun. I took a tour of the island, which included several different sights. One was the mummified monk. It was kind of creepy. The monk died in 1973 and his followers noticed that his body was not decaying, so they displayed it in a glass coffin, believing that this was a Buddhist miracle. He still has some h ... 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