V at temple

Of elephants & rented companions...

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April 30th 2011
We arrived at our next destination, Koh Samui, by boat and braced ourselves for the upcoming ritual duel with taxi drivers at the boat dock… the only problem was that instead of encountering the usual throngs of taxi drivers vying for your business, we found the opposite… tumbleweeds and crickets. To be more specific… all the locals on the ferry cleared out and about 15 of us tourists were l ... 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