Thailand
  • Capital:   Bangkok
  • Language:   Thai
  • Population:   58,791,000 (1995)
  • Area:   513,120 square kilometres
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    Amazing Thailand, nothing is more true than that. I was there during the yearly Songkran Festival (The water festival), and I must admit that I never had that fun and never been that wet.
    For you that have never been there and don't know what it means... they are driving around with pick-ups and in the back they have this big barrels with water and then they are throwing on everyone that is passing and if you are going to Thailand in the middle of April, count on getting wet !

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    Here I'm standing in front of Sanphet Prasat Palace at Muang Boran "The ancient city". Muang Boran or The Ancient city is the worlds largest open-air museum, it covers around 128 hectares (320 acres). And here you can see the most famous monuments of Thailand, when I was there I could see that they were still building new monuments from their old history.

    It's located 33 km. from Bangkok along the old sukhumvit road towards Bangpoo.

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    And then we also got the grand Palace in Bangkok.

    To the left you can see one of the mythical giants called yaks.

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    My most recent visit to Thailand was great, but I didn't get any tan because there are roofs on the bars, In Bangkok you got this three "famous" places with gogo bars,

    • Soi cowboy
    • Nana plaza
    • Patpong
    The first two is along sukhumvit road and they are the only ones I have visit so far. Soi Cowboy is a street between soi 21 and 23, and Nana plaza is on soi 4 (See map). Nana Plaza is three floors of different bars.

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    But the places I really like to hang out on is the ones at "Buckskin Joe Village", That street is opposite soi 1. The most of the bars there is pool bars, where you can play pool and drink beer. And if you like disco's I know one good along  sukhumvit road and that one is the disco at Nana hotel, opposite Nana Plaza at soi 4.

    My favourite bar is "Rooster Bar Beer"

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