Taling Chan Floating Market

Siam

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March 25th 2010
Growing up on a farm in rural Iowa, Thailand was always a country that seemed too exotic to be real. From pictures of beautiful white sand beaches littered with palm trees to the bright lights and tales of ping pong shows of Bangkok, it was certainly never a place I ever thought I would go. Despite all this, it wasn't until I was on the flight there that the excitement set in, and even then, I w ... read more

Asia » Thailand

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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