The Grand Palace

Day Two - 25/1/11

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January 25th 2011
Today we went to The Grand Palace and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, a 59 acre city within a city 200 years old. Very nice but it did go on a bit. The emerald Buddha is 29 inches high and made of jasper. We also visited The Giant Buddha, 32 metres high and The Lucky Buddha, people like to get married in front of him. There are fresh fruit stalls along the street, we had a quarter of a pineapple ... read more

Asia » Thailand

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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