Beach Life

Ko Samui, Koh Pha-ngan, Koh Tao

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March 15th 2011
After flying into Bangkok, we travelled down to the south of Thailand, this time deciding to take an overnight train instead yet another bus journey. We opted for second class, cheap yet cheerful and sufficient for us to pull our seat back and get some sleep. The trains are rather old, the passenger emergency signal still being a long chain that you had to pull. It was an enjoyably different trave ... 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