On the elephants 1

Back from the hilltribes!

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January 21st 2007
The past two days have been really cool.. Yesterday morning we left at 9am and drove first to the markets to gather food for our trek then on to Chiang Dao to begin our trek. It was about 1pm by the time we got to the first village to start the trek. The trek wasn't too bad, we wakled for 15 ks and through two villages. all the villagers wanted to sell us things that were practically all the sa ... 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