Pattaya

Sin City, a.k.a. Pattaya (Day 6)

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June 9th 2009
We ventured into Pattaya Town today (we are actually staying a good few km's from Pattaya) and that was definitely more of a culture shock than actual Thailand. Pattaya isn't real Thailand. And straight away we decided we didn't like it all that much, not because it's over-commercial, not because of the amount of touts and not because of the amount of go-go bars and lady-boys milling around. T ... 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