Nakhon Phanom

Blue Remembered Hills

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July 4th 2018
The region known as Isan is the vast, arid plateau in Thailand's northwest that serves as the country's rice basket and reservoir of cheap labor keeping Bangkok's factories humming and Thailand exporting. Apart from isolated hillocks, the area is relentlessly flat, and it remains largely monocultural. During the long dry season, the rice fields are as parched as any desert. Lumbering buffaloes and ... 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