Here comes our bamboo raft, ready for us to board

Happy Yew Near!

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April 15th 2009
Another day of Songkran, another adventure in miscommunication… Jaz and I decided we would like to have a little bamboo rafting adventure. We had done this last year as part of a packaged day-long tour that included an elephant ride, a visit to a waterfall, etc. This time we really just wanted to do the bamboo raft, so the guest house arranged a taxi to take us there and we headed out in the la ... 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