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Ticking the Boxes- Elephants and Rafting

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April 25th 2009
Hello everyone, beginning the countdown of our last week in Asia in a town called Kanchanaburi (Bridge on the river Kwai.) We are staying on the river in a floating raft room which is very picturesque- shame about the bed bugs that ate Katie alive on the first night- it only ever happens to me : ( Kanchanaburi is quite a large town so on our first day we hired Mitsy the moped and armed with a ma ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Western Thailand » Kanchanaburi

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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