First few days in Thailand - Bangkok 023

First few days in Thailand - Bangkok

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June 20th 2012
We got out of the airport and onto the city line train to go to Phaya Thai station, the end of the line in central Bangkok. We then aimed to get a bus to our booked hostel. Our orientation was off and if it weren’t for a friendly and helpful Thai man, we would have ended up on the BTS skytrain – which was not very useful to us. Having successfully exited the station, we were then greeted by ye ... 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