A long nosed butterflyfish

Thailand

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January 4th 2009
I was still angry when I finally got up at the real 5.30am alarm. It didn’t help that our pick up, due at 6.10am, didn’t show until 6.45. That did us out of an extra half hour in bed! We got into the minibus a bit annoyed at the lack of apology from the driver. After driving all the way to Patong (and hour round trip) we discovered the people he should have picked up there weren’t there ( ... 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