THAILAND-PHUKET-10/0220 thru 0222 Photo 7

THAILAND-PHUKET-10/0220 thru 0222

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February 22nd 2010
After 6 days in Chiang Mai I headed south to the Island of Phuket... I am sitting by the pool in the hotel facing the Andaman sea...It is dreamlike...It is like all the different descriptions of paradise one reads in religious books... I was initially shocked by the hyper tourism at the airport, agents selling their products from limousine to taxi services to tour packages to the different isl ... 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