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A9 Emeral Buddha Temple

Thailand II

May 24th 2010
Our train arrived to Bangkok at 6 am. The most interesting part of our taxi ride from the train station to our hotel was seeing the Thai monks ‘morning alms round’. Buddhist monks live in the many temples that are scattered around Bangkok. They should not accumulate food (like in a kitchen) and cannot cook either, so every early morning they go out walking close to the temples where they li ... read more
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Thai Flag 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
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