Soap carving

Chatuchak Market in the heat

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July 15th 2006
Geo: 13.7308, 100.521I slept well until Kyla sent Mel an SMS at 5.30ish!! I showered and we headed down to breaky – Mel arrived at the lift just as Nana and Pa did.After breaky, we headed to the Chatachuk Market. We caught a taxi there – cheaper and quicker than the train with four of us. The taxi stopped off at 'gem' shop. He took us to 'a place' (as it happened it ... 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