Is It Bad If Your Hands Are Sunburnt Purple-Orange? Day 4: Biking South From Bangkok
July 18th 2008 Day Four: Petchaburi to Cha-Am Beach
This morning we set off early, biking on the main highway and searching for a small side road, shown on our map, that would take us along the ocean. We stopped at a gas station to ask directions and three teenage boys on a motorbike offered to guide us to the correct side road. We followed these boys six miles, about fifteen minutes, back the way we’d come.
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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 
