Bridge over the River Kwai

Kanchanaburi: Tigers and Elephants and Trains - Oh My!

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August 19th 2008
We collected our packs at the Bangkok Airport and found them soaking wet from being transported from the plane to the terminal. Its rainy season in Bangkok and it turns out that our cheap knock-off packs from China are less than waterproof. We made our way to the bus which would take us downtown with street directions which didn't yet make sense to us, just knowing that we would see a 7-Eleven b ... 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