The Reclining Buddha

Thailand

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May 18th 2008
To our first destination, Chiang Mai. We'd heard good things about Thailands second biggest city, so we decided to stay there for 5 days, thinking we'd finally get a bit of time to relax. How wrong were we. After checking in to a hotel, we stopped into a tour agency and 30 minutes later we had something booked for each day (except for me, who, because of an irrational fear of falling small distanc ... read more

Asia » 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