The Grand Palace

Bangkok

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May 19th 2009
This is a very cosmopolitan city and for the most part you might imagine you'd left Asia but for the food and clothes stalls taking up the pavement and the “hey, where you go?” calls from tuk tuk drivers adding a bit of eastern flavour. We filled our days very pleasantly here visiting palaces, temples, markets, pubs, shopping centres and managed to catch a film in the cinema. Standing for the ... 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