P2160601

bangkok pang pong ping

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February 19th 2010
The flights were pretty traumatic as we didn't sleep due to noisy airports, short flights with stops and lots of feeding going on and the suddenly being plopped into a different country after a long journey, no sleep and my what a city! Bangkok is big and a serious culture shock after India. Everything is pretty clean, roads with pavements, taxis in every colour of the rainbow, air con buses, big ... 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