Thailand - Kohpanyi Indonesian Village - Phang Nga Bay

Phuket, Thailand

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November 6th 2007
Arrived Phuket early morning and used some more of our "credit" to take a tour to James Bond Island. We travelled by coach for the full length of the Island of Phuket and crossed to the mainland over the Causeway Bridge, skirting Phuket town on the way. We were very surprised to see a high incidence of mosques in a country that we understood to be mainly Buddhist. However, we learned that the isla ... 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