Orange Fanta, The Sports Drink of Legends - Day 10: Biking South from Bangkok
July 25th 2008 Day 10: Bankrud to Ban Saphan Noi
We began the day biking on quiet back roads running right alongside the beach. We passed seafood factories and watched workers arriving for their shifts, or breaking at small restaurants across the street, clad in white hair-nets and full white plastic suits. A town full of young men, hanging out, playing pool, drinking beers we presumed to be fishermen, alrea
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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 
