Riverboat tour

Bangkok - Chiang Mai and back!

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February 23rd 2005
After the Perhentian islands we headed up to Khota Bharu and crossed the border into Thailand. From where we got a 4 hour minibus ride to Hat Yai and an overnight bus to Bangkok. We stayed in 'Ýour home' guest house in Soy Kasem San and this is where we had our first hot shower for ages. It was bliss and when the Chicken cashew was washed down by a Singh beer later I thought I'd died and gone ... 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