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Bangkok, Day 1

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July 15th 2011
We arrived in Bangkok at midnight, hands and feet blown up like doughy balloons from 20 hours in flight. The hostel boasts a sixth floor rooftop bar with a stunning vies of a communist era skyscraper being rehabilitated by the hand of the tallest cranes I'd ever seen. An ageless Japanese woman with a charming brace-y smile speaks perfect English as she checks us in and directs us to the "night ... 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