Da Beach

Aaaah, the beach

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January 10th 2006
Hey all, Where to begin...So, after our last entry we headed to Vientiane, Lao PDR. Keif and I had quite the bus experience. Some highlights include: the 12 hour overnight bus from Chiang Mai blows out a tire 15 minutes into trip, we don't see any other foreigners at any of the bus stops we stop at, NOTHING is written in English, etc. Fortunately we were befriended by a girl named Phun (pronou ... 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