Sharon in the backpacker strip

A Hair Raising Experience in Bangkok

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May 27th 2007
We arrived in Bangkok in the early hours after getting the night bus/ferry from Ko Tao and stayed in the same Bangkok hotel as before, the New Siam II. We checked in at 6am and certainly got our money's worth that day :-) Bangkok didn't seem as stressful as before and we actually felt quite comfortable this time around. It is amazing how familiar surroundings can put you at ease straight aw ... 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