Buddhas Feet

Just another day in Bangkok

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February 19th 2007
I just realized the abbreviations for Bangkok and Brooklyn are the same. BK. We took the sheraton ferry accross the river and then the skytrain over to the Jim Thompson House Museum. Jim Thompson was a CIA agent who fell in love with thai culture and decided to stay on after the war. He is known for revitalizing the thai silk industry and mysteriously vanishing in the mountains of burma never to ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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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