Category: Thailand
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There Was No Bridge Over the River Kwai
Kanchanaburi is a town in the west of Thailand, 123 kilometers west of Bangkok and the capital of Kanchanaburi Province. There really isn’t much there, and yet it is often found on most of the what-to-do-in-Thailand lists because the town claims that it is the site of a train bridge made famous in a few movies…
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A Festival, Art, and Empire in Thailand
While we were planning to spend a month in Thailand, we hadn’t yet completely decided just what we would be doing there. Busy waiting for a flight from Laos to Myanmar, Linda read about the International Balloon Festival that was going to be held in Chiang Mai a few days after we were due to…