Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha)

One night (ok several) in Bangkok

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May 9th 2006
The flight to Bangkok took considerably longer than I thought. On the way, I was entertained first with trying to figure out who the guys around me were. It was a large group of predominantly Americans and Brits, from mid-30's to probably about 60 in age. Some of them looked clean cut whilst others, including the guy next to me, looked a bit more...punk rock. Turns out it was Toto (remember the so ... 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