Snake Show

Day Twelve: The Return

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July 31st 2011
Our journey back to Bangkok started early and involved many stops. The guides thought that if we made it a long day with plenty of mini-breaks it wouldn’t seem so long and maybe, perhaps, we would miss some of the horrendous Bangkok rush hour traffic. (That plan didn’t seem to work – or traffic at rush hour is even worse than I imagined; at 7PM it still took over 40 minutes to drive two kilo ... read more

Asia » Thailand

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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