Arriving in Bangkok

Bangkok

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November 17th 2012
Day 60 Having woke up feeling a little worse for wear, and with Mark now sporting a fat lip from the door incident we packed up and caught our bus for Bangkok. It was a 9 hour journey in total in quite a small mini bus but we crossed the border without any problems and arrived at Khoa San Road in Bangkok around 9pm. I hadn't been to this area before, but Mark said it had expande ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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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