Thailand travel stories

Tropical Paradise

After Siem Reap, I pushed on to Bangkok for one night, which was interesting for only one thing. While I was walking down the street I heard my name called out, which is fairly unusual in foreign c...

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Angkor Wat and Friends

Made the bus trip up from Pnom Penh to Siem Reap, the jumping off point of touring Angkor Wat, and once again, the bus ride was interesting. This time merely Cambodian music videos and comedy shows...

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"I get 70 miles to the gallon on this hog . . ."

For those unawares, the title of today's entry is a quote from the movie, Dumb and Dumber, and while it is a good description of the characters in the film, it's a spectacularly apt label f...

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Arrival in Chiang Mai

I arrived by overnight train to Chiang Mai in the morning. Chiang Mai is in Northwest Thailand, and the former capitol of some empire or another, and as such, is famous for numerous wats and a uniq...

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Ayuthaya

After a morning of sightseeing in Bangkok I hopped a third class seat on a train to to Ayuthaya, which provided for an interesting two hours that included no air conditioning, a full train car and ...

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