Just Watching The World Go By

Monkey Mayhem

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November 22nd 2008
Having got up fairly early and taken a tuk tuk to the train station, we got on a train to go to our next destination - Lopburi, a town an hour's journey North of Ayutthaya. Once on the train we met a couple of very friendly Thai people who (as seems to happen a fair bit) were interested in what we were doing, where we were from and keen to just talk to us about anything at all (despite their E ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Lopburi

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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