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Day 13-16 Khao Sok National Park

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February 17th 2009
So we were sad to leave Koh Samui and the beach, but we knew we were in for a different experience of Thailand. Khao Sok (pronounced COW SOCK) National Park, one of the oldest forests and somewhere I read it was the oldest rainforest in the world because the glaciers of the last ice age never reached here like they did in the Amazon and Africa. After a ferry from Samui to Surat Thani, we met a ... read more

Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand

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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