Palace Gardens

My lovely tour guide sitting in a beautiful garden that contained a pond filled with mammoth, savage, koy fish. The garden was meant to represent Mount Krailas and was once the site of the royal tonsure ceremony, when children had their heads shaved for the first time. I'm pretty sure they sacrificed the children to the koy fish as well.

LZ - Bangkok

May 1st 2005
The last I left off, I was at the border between Cambodia and Thailand. We were next to a bus depot that contained several large luxurious busses as well as some old, covered pickup trucks with long wooden benches lining each side. Nobody in the group knew whether our prayers would be answered with passage onto the newer bus or if we were going to spend the next 6 hours to Bangkok in the back of ... 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

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