Bangkok! (a bit of a late entry)... Photo 5

Bangkok! (a bit of a late entry)...

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August 24th 2008
It is the first night of the trip, and Dave and I are resting in the lobby/café in our hostel. The first day has passed by both slowly and quickly. A quick hour of card-playing during lunch, and drink-sipping while planning the rest of the day, and painfully slow minutes of balancing our enormous backpacks and dragging unwieldy suitcases through the streets of Kao San neighborhood. Thankfully, ... 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