Bangkok Train Station

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April 9th 2011
Arriving in Chang Mai, at the unsightly time of 6:30 am we got to experience our first ever Tuk Tuk ride. Having heard much of the ways in which a Tuk Tuk driver will try to scam you it was a bit of a relief to eventually arrive at our hostel scam free. It was also a relief to be out of the Tuk Tuk as being carried around in what is essentially a demented version of a Robin reliant (with worse bui ... 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