"happy" elephant

Loy Krathong

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November 16th 2008
Last Wednesday was the Thai festival of Loy Krathong, so we decided that morning to skip work and venture to Chiang Rai to get in on the action. The trip was several hours on sangteuw (covered pickup truck with benches that operate like small buses), bus, and a longtail boat (long boats with the prop several meters down a shaft from the engine...very cool). At one stop on the Mae Kok River there w ... 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