The jungle trail

The moped diaries

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April 5th 2011
The drum roll blares from the plasma screen TV installed above the bar, two men deposit two fighting cocks in the small ring and the birds begin to circle each other. I'm shocked, not only is cock fighting legal over here, but its screened on national television as well. IN the meantime we saw our window on Phi PHi and dove through it, taking a ferry to the mainland town of Krabbi and from ther ... 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