Beautiful Temple

Bangkok

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October 27th 2005
Hi everyone, We flew up to Bangkok from Phuket and made our way straight to its backpacking center, Khao San Road. Khao San is crowded with backpackers from all over the world, a string of pubs and cheap guesthouses and stalls that sell pretty much everything! On our first day we took a boat trip along the river to get to the Vietnamese Embassy to to sort out our visas, then we took a trip to t ... 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