merry christmas

Christmas on the beach

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January 4th 2008
Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2008 is treating you well so far. It seems like a lifetime ago now, when we set of travelling overland from the north of Thailand down to the islands in the south. 2 overnight trains, 3 bus rides and a couple of 'ferries' (floating bits of tarmac) later, we arrived at Ko Lanta. The journey is the destination and all that... Travel down there seems to be or ... read more

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand

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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