05 05 2010 05 05 10 007

05 05 2010

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May 8th 2010
05 05 2010 We greeted Wednesday with a bright hot sunny day. The great breakfast here and then a look round the shops was the plan. Not the sweaty hectic markets of Bangkok but the air conditioned tourist shopping mall. As luck would have it we discovered our hotel is actually linked to the main shopping centre MBK. We just walked past security and had our bags checked and we were in. It wa ... 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