Latitude: 13.75 N Longitude: 100.5167 E Capital: Bangkok
Travel in Thailand
A total of 285 members have visited 304 locations in Thailand.
Together they have written 1349 travel stories and uploaded 11196 pictures from Thailand.
Last visit in Thailand was made 2009-10-25 by sbennetj3 who was in Chiang Mai.
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Short introduction to Thailand
A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century; it was 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. In alliance with Japan during World War II, Thailand became a US ally following the conflict.
Kanchanaburi turned out to be a good place to spend a couple of days. I did quite a lot of walking and looking, but the 40 c. degree heat kept things pretty low-key. Over the weekend there was some so...
I knew arriving in Bangkok was going to be a shock to my system. While AU and NZ were incredible, they were not culturally different on a daily basis from home and I arrived in Bangkok at midnight lo...
We made it upto Pai mid afternoon, after saying goodbye to our new travelling friends Pat & Kristie and a two and a half journey by road. We'd headed down to the Bus station initially, intent on catc...