Khao San Road

Bangkok

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March 3rd 2006
"If you're heading to Thailand, don't take a bus. Just don't do it. Really. No. Don't." Thus went an article in a Siem Reap city guide I picked up about 5 hours after I had just invested $12 in a bus ticket from Siem Reap to Bangkok. I thought that was rather melodramatic. The road from Siem Reap to the Thai border is notorious but the alternative the guide offered was hiring a taxi and dri ... 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