Bike tour day 2: largest standing Buddha

Baanpong

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December 9th 2015
Geo: 18.8, 98.98Today I only made 2 mistakes in navigating. First one wasn't much of a problem, we noticed it after a few minutes. The second one was a bit different', I send us over the mountain instead of around it. We should have known asthe bridge we had to pass came much too early. We knew we had to climb today and we already did but this was steeper than steep. After a few kil ... 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