Nigel on an East coast beach

Out and about in Ko Lanta

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February 28th 2007
We decided to have a look around the island and travelled over to the East coast. The scenery is really stunning, you can hear monkeys in the jungle and see huge Eagles swooping out over the sea - really amazing. We were going to visit a cave but decided against it when we were told it would involve climbing and crawling through narrow gaps. It's far too hot for that here. We managed 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