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On my way, to Chiang Mai...

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February 12th 2010
We left Bangkok on Thursday 11th February - caught a taxi (metered - so much cheaper!) to the train station and waited for our overnight train to Chiang Mai. The train station had a huge high ceiling with lots of red seats in the centre which as I found out were not attached to the ground when I sat on one with my backpack and it slid along the floor! We got on the train early and foind our ... 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