Inside Wat Suthat

Temples

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January 12th 2008
Today I wanted to go back downtown to view some of the big tourist attractions that I missed when I was in that part of town on Wednesday. So I took a cab (I didn't want to walk another 4 hours to get downtown this time) and after my driver got lost a couple times and stopped to ask for directions on two different occasions, he finally got me to Wat Intharawihan, which was where I wanted to go fi ... 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