Sleeping in my bunk on the train

Banging around in Bangkok

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February 20th 2007
The day after the half moon party we began a painful 18 hour journey by boat and overnight train to Bangkok. As you can see from the pictures, the train felt like a step back in time. We were naively expecting red plush seats and got sticky blue vinyl. Even though we each had sleeper bunks, little sleep was to be had. In the morning we all agreed it had been a scary night, repeatedly waking to ... 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