River Phet

Egoblog feat. me, other people, cities, ruins and monkeys

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November 27th 2009
The only way to leave Koh Tao for Chumphon at a reasonable time is to take the touristy speedboat, and grudgingly I buy the overpriced ticket. At the pier, hordes of pale-skinned, tan and sunburnt Westerners are waiting to board, most of them looking exactly like the crowd I would imagine on Phuket or Koh Samui. As the boat starts racing towards Chumphon, many a face turns ashen, and as the first ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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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