Soldier Receiving White Roses

Coup d'etat?!?

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September 20th 2006
19/09/06 - 20/09/06 Bangkok Our overland journey from Siem Reap started early with a private Taxi to Poipet on the border with Thailand. We wanted to catch the bus but it didn't arrive in time for the daily train. (In the end we caught a bus to Bangkok instead, which departs every hour so it wouldn't have mattered). The journey was 160km of mud roads - How does the car suspension survive. I h ... 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