Grand Palace

Floating Hotel Rooms And a Big Change of Plans

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October 13th 2008
On my last day in Bangkok, I walked around all day in the scorching heat to check out the "must see" sights. Most of them were about within an hour's walk from my hotel. I walked all the way to the Grand Palace only to find out shorts were prohibited. On my way back, I took care of some things like burning my pictures to DVD, haircut, all that kind of good stuff. I also had another terrific me ... 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