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| Thai Head Piece, National Museum |
Friday and Saturday, February 8-9, 2013
We checked out of the Pathuman Princess Hotel today and checked into the Nouvo City Hotel where we will be meeting up with our Peregrine Tour group this evening. We have enjoyed being on our own, doing our own things at our own speed, so it is with just a bit of trepidation that we join a tour group where it will be go, go, go for the next 20 days while we tour northern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Viet Nam.
Yesterday, Friday February 8, we spent a relaxing day with an afternoon walk,to the ajim Thompson House only a few blocks from the Princess Hotel. Jim Thompson was an American who settled in Bangkok after WWII and help to establish the silk industry in Thailand. In 1967, he went on a Holiday in Malaysia and mysteriously disappeared. His home and garden are now a monument here in Thailand.
Today, Saturday, February 9, we checked into our new hotel around 10:30, but our room wouldn't be ready until 2:00.
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| Our Hotel is the Building on Right with Awning |
We are right in the heart of old Bangkok, so we decided to visit some of the markets and the National Museum which is filled with artifacts and historical detail of Thailand and the many battles that were fought to maintain the kingdom that was once much larger and included Malaysia, Burma and other small countries. Thailand today is about the size of the state of Oregon.
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| Textile Collection |
We meet up tonight with our tour and leave tomorrow for Northern Thailand.
All is well with the Worrall Travel R's
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