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Songkran!

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April 17th 2011
Jesse and I were lucky enough to be traveling Thailand during Songkran, the Thai New Year Festival. It goes on for about 5 or 6 days. A local suggested to me that its ending date has a lot to do with when people run out of money and are too hungover to continue the party. We spent the festival in Chiang Mai and Chiang Khong, in Northern Thailand. Chiang Mai is Thailand's cultural and intellectu ... read more

Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

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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