Sunrise

Khao Sok Jungle

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July 3rd 2008
After a day of bus & ferry travel, we arrived at Khao Sok National park. This area gets the most rain in Thailand, so needless to say, it was pretty damp and humid! The forest is also one of the oldest in the world because it was not covered during the ice age. There definitely was an incredible amount of biodiversity, and I was in awe of how huge some of the trees were! I must say, the monkey ... 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