Kings birthday celebrations

Wat Arun looking beautiful from the river

December 5th 2006
Today is the kings birthday and a national holiday in Thailand. I decide to take advantage of the quieter roads and use taxis to get to the places I want to visit that I can’t get to by boat or sky train. It turns out to be a miscalculation, not because of the roads, which are quieter, but because of incompetent taxi drivers. At the sky train station I flag a taxi to take me on a 5 minute journe ... 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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Sam Clarke

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After years of dreaming about it, and months of talking about it, I finally made the decision to travel. In 2006 I gave up my job and set off on an adventure to South East Asia.........and I'm still here! Last year I traveled to Sri Lanka, India and Thailand and had an amazing time, completely falling in love with the places, the people and the lifestyle - not to mention the weather. This year I returned intending to get a job, probably teaching in Bangkok I thought. When I returned I decided to revisit friends that I had made at my last port of call in 2006 where I had volunteered at an eleph... full info

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