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Island Life

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March 25th 2015
After a relaxing day at sea, we were up and at em for a day of circling the island of Ko Samui to take an elephant ride, watch a demonstration of a monkey retrieving coconuts (trained to do so because they are faster and more adept than people), watched an elephant do some tricks and visited a waterfall nearby. A cooking demonstration was thrown in for good measure (Papaya Salad) but I don’t thi ... 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