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Fat Westerner

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February 8th 2005
The Thai alphabet has 48 consonants, 24 vowels and 6 'tones'. They really should do a version of Countdown. Love it or loathe it, Khao San Road in Bangkok is and always will be the backpacker capital of East Asia and you will often run into people you met in other parts of Asia. This time for me, Bangkok was a waiting stop before a dive trip in the south. I whiled away the time spending a ... read more

Asia » Thailand

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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