Rubber farm

Phuket, Thailand

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January 26th 2009
In Phuket we stayed at a little resort on the beach. We went to the FantaSea performance - which was kind of like a theme park with lots of shops and games, dinner, and then a performance with dancers and animals (a LOT of elephants...my favorite). It was interesting, I would definitely recommend it. We also went to a little farm and got a demonstration of how the monkeys work to get coconuts down ... 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