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November 16th 2007
So, where was I? After Hiroshima we had a brief visit to Nara, previously a capital of Japan and full of more temples and gardens. The most impressive was a temple which is the largest wooden building in the world containing the largest cast bronze budhha in the world.....both pretty big! From there we headed up another sacred mountain (by train and funicular rather than on foot this time) cal ... 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