Grand Palace, Bangkok

April 13th 2006
Thailand was an amazing country ! Headed straight for KhaoSan Road in Bangkok after I got in. It seems a mecca for backpackers and tourists. They outnumber the Thai locals by 10 to 1 !! Too much of a temptation though to just sit around in bars, to avoid the 35 degree heat, drinking and watching movies. Surprisingly little to do in Bangkok besides meet people at hostels and go out drinking around ... 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

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Whatever I wanted to say here about travel has probably already been said more eloquently by someone else... A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~Mark Twain The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to se... full info

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