"The Beach"

Christmas and the Germans

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February 6th 2008
After our near-fatal bus crash we caught a ferry to Ko Phi Phi which turned out to be a great little island, if a bit over-populated with Germans. We did lots of beach in the day and lots of drinking in the evenings and I saw my first bit of Thai boxing which was pretty brutal. We hired a kayak one day to visit the beaches that can't be walked to. The first one was Monkey Beach where people fed gr ... 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