Steps n that

Chang Mai

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August 27th 2006
After the night train up from Bangkok we arrived in the city of Chaing Mai. My initial impression of the place was that it was really just a smaller, but equally grubby version of Bangkok. This was confirmed throughout the next few days in which i found that i'd had enough of the pollution and squalor. This city itself is not really a very nice place. Built around a square moat it is a dirty littl ... 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