Taxi - complete with monks

Sleeper Train to Chiang Mai and going hippy.

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November 3rd 2010
I write this sat by a pool in our current hostel. It isn’t amazing but the sound of running water is pleasant, and the room is adequate, but more on that in a minute… Tuesday 2nd November I awoke early to the clackety clack of the train moving over the track. Clackety clack, clackety clack, clackety clack……. The first light of pre-dawn was starting to inch in through the woefu ... 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