Similan

Phuket, Phi Phi, Similan ("paradise") and Krabi

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April 27th 2006
With our objective in Prachuap complete we boarded a bus in the morning headed for Phuket where we would meet up with the friends we had made in Bangkok. Benya lived and worked in Phuket and Wine, Jesse and Boi were flying down from Bangkok. The bus journey was 10 hours, which is a short one by our standards, but we really felt it. The journey was uncomfortable and seemed to drag on for ages. Nev ... 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