Wat Phra Kaeo

Bangkok-Temples, Palaces and Fights

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January 20th 2008
On Friday we got up fairly early, the plan being to visit the Grand Palace and Wat Pho. Wanting to get there by boat we took the long way around to get a river boat up towards the palace. There are lots of boats on the Chao Phraya river - the river ferries we took, longboats, cross river ferries and smaller individual boats. Many of Bangkok's sights can be seen as you cruise up the river as w ... 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