Reclining Buddha

Temples, Thai massage & Thai Cooking at the Blue Elephant - Bangkok

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January 27th 2010
We arrived back to Bangkok on Tues 1 Dec and returned to SamSen Sam Place for our last jaunt to the city. THE GRAND PALACE AND WAT PHO On Wed 2 Dec we caught the ferry down the Chao Phraya river in order to visit two of the main tourist sights in central Bangkok - The Grand Palace and Wat Pho. Even though I had already seen both the aforementioned when I first came to Bangkok ten years ago ... 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