The National Stadium

Bangkok & the Floating Market

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January 11th 2009
Polly: On Tuesday, after a day on the beach, we caught a bus from the centre of Hua Hin to Bangkok, which cost us 160 Baht each. The bus took us to the Southern Bus Terminal, which turned out to be some way from (and east of) Bangkok city centre. The night before we had Googled 'nice areas to stay in Bangkok' and about four popular areas came up. Not really having much more information, we p ... 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