Elephant walking the streets

Bangkok, Thailand

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January 2nd 2009
Bangkok was where we spent the last few days of our trip. It is a bustling city. The streets are filled with traffic and the sidewalks filled with stands selling everything from street food to clothes to fake perfume. The air is thick with pollution. Massive amounts of electrical wires powering the city were entertwined and tangled one story up from the ground. At night people trying to make a buc ... 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