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Wat Thaton to Pai

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July 19th 2006
Hey dudes! It's been a while since I last updated this, but I've been living in a monastery on the side of a mountain for a week, so I figure that's a decent enough excuse... Wat Thaton is a 9 level Buddhist Monastery scattered up the side of a mountain behind the thiny northern town of Thaton, basically right on the Thai-Burma border. It's a tiny little out-of-the-way place that most peopl ... read more

Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Pai

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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