History Lesson! Photo 1

History Lesson!

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September 27th 2008
After a long 9 hour train journey with some interesting jungle views and playing peek a boo with a little boy who kept peeking between the seats we arrived in Ayutthaya, and after our first day here we are feeling very cultured!! On arrival we got in a tuk tuk where we thought the driver knew where he was taking us but after Zoe spotted our hostel we had to get his attention to turn around and ... 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