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Where the nation’s beloved king, who rules from billboards and calendars across the country, is a people's chameleon: in the working city, the welcome sign depicts the king in a hardhat; in the artsy town, the king looks out from behind his camera; and at…

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  Ko Phi Phi’s beauty is more than emerald water deep – the endless mid afternoom procession that color the back streets of the tourist ghetto highlight this party isle’s fascinating diversity: A man pushing a cart filled with garbage bags. Another pushes backpacks and…

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Or better yet, on the most pleasant surprise of the last four weeks. Trang, our first stop on our tour of the Andaman isles, is a delightful slice of Thai bohemia. But it begins in Hat Yai, our first post Malaysian-Thai border stop where we…

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Travelling for many months is a long and winding road: You deliberate at the forks and savour the turns, cross and re-cross paths with fellow wanderers and (sometimes when you least expect it) come out at spectacular views. And, more often than you'd like, as…

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