Amari Atrium

Our first few days in Bangkok

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December 11th 2008
We have arrived at day four of our Bangkok adventure. Bangkok is a city of contradictions. 5-star hotels next door to ruins. Porsches in shop windows while noisy tuk-tuks hurtle by. Elephants on busy highways; Go-go girls ducking out of work to pay homage to Buddha; Hot chips in red curry (we'll come back to that). The city is fast-paced, noisy, smelly and strangely alluring. We stayed on Sukh ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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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