Ko Samui's Big Budda

Ko Samui & Ko Tao

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February 21st 2013
So I finally made it out of Bangkok, albeit without my visa for Vietnam. It seems that sleeping in til 4pm on the day I originally had planned to visit the embassy made no difference at all. The embassy was closed all week for Chinese New Year (the biggest holiday in Vietnam apparently) and did not reopen until Tuesday the 19th. I had planned to get my visa sorted on Monday the 18th, and in my has ... 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