Bamboo island

Relaxing on 'The Beach'

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September 25th 2007
Day 179 (20.09.07) We arrived into Surat Thani town at 5am and were taken in a minibus to a little cafe to wait - we're not sure what for! At 6am we were taken in another truck with a couple of other people to a 'bus station' which was really just a wooden building and a large dirt area. No-one was about but our boat ticket was swapped for a ticket for the next stage of our journey, the truck d ... 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