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Chiang Mai Day 1

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November 21st 2010
Lots of catching up to do with the blogs! After I left you last, it was Friday morning. I left the internet cafe in search of a new book to read, a pack of cigarettes, and food. I found only the cigarettes ($2.80 a pack for Marlboros, didn't try the Thai ones because they looked iffy), but I did run into something even more amazing. Down the road there is a school (7th graders to 12th graders). It ... 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