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Trekking In the Jungle

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January 3rd 2008
We just arrived back from our trek and it was crazy! We went into the mountains to stay with a hill tribe, trekked through the jungle, rode elephant back up the mountain, and then bamboo rafted back down. The trek began by driving into the mountains around Chiang Mai. We started trekking from a villiage that had a baby monkey and Allison got to hold him. He was so cute and he even screamed wh ... read more

Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

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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