Wat Bowonniwetviharn, Banglamphu

Bit of a shock being in the big city !!

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December 15th 2011
Geo: 13.75, 100.517We arrive at Mo Chit bus station Bangkok at 5am and taxi to our hotel. Realise that I booked the wrong place on the internet. We use a group of hotels and usually stay at New Siam I but for some reason I seem to have booked a room at New Siam II, luckily only a few hundred yards away. We are given a room upgrade so that we do not need to wait for a room to be prepared at th ... read more

Asia » Thailand

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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