Our 'yaught'

Transport terror in Thailand

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June 5th 2007
At 7pm we were picked up by a army style jeep and bustled off to our night ferry that would take us from Ko Tao to Surat Thani. We were all in high spirits, as we imagined the ferry to be a dreamy, high-spec, luxury cruiser, maybe with a small mini bar serving fancy, fruity cocktails and littered with dark, dashingly handsome travelers. However, when we arrived at the ferry port we were rather ... 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