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18 05 2010

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May 22nd 2010
18 05 2010 Today was a wet grey rainy day for the entire morning. We spent our time on the internet checking out hotels in Dubai and booking transport for the last leg of our adventure. By the afternoon it had dried up so we got on our little Honda and took off up the mountains. There was the obligatory temple and mummified monk obviously but soon we were heading up some pretty steep hill ... 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