The wind breaker

We've Bottled it on Ko Pha Ngan

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June 6th 2006
Up at 6.30am to decide if the weather looks good enough to go to Koh Pha Ngan, yet another island. Yes it did so we bought our ferry tickets and waited for the bus to pick us up and take us to the jetty just 6km out of Surat Thani. After loading on the mountain of backpacks and the hoards of people we were on the boat ready to leave for 8am, but for some reason we did not set off until 8.45am. O ... 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