Rosemary, Connie and me

Bangkok

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July 13th 2008
Sunday 13th Today we travelled in a minibus to the river Kwai. First of all we visited the war cemetry where many Australian, New Zealand and British servicemen are buried as well as a lot of Dutch civilians. We walked on the reconstructed bridge, built under the Japanese by the prisoners of war and destroyed by allied bombing. There was a "museum", vaguely reminiscent of countless rural muse ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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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