Monkey on the beach

Hat Patong and Ko Phi Phi

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August 1st 2010
We took an overnight bus from Bangkok to Phuket, we had booked through an agency near Khao San Rd even after the countless Lonely Planet warnings not to- welllll, guess we should have listened! Around 5:30am we were dropped off at a town called Surat Thani. From here, the passengers are to be divided into smaller minivans to get to their final destination. We sat in a bus station and watched the J ... 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