Grand Palace

Farewell Bangkok

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June 13th 2009
It doesn’t take long to figure out that in Bangkok it seems that everyone is trying to scam you. Our encounter was the infamous trick of the tuk tuk drivers asking were you are going when sightseeing and telling you that the sight is closed for the day but they can take you to another sight. We fobbed off countless drivers with not so much as a by your leave and did our own sightseeing at our ow ... 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