http://www.traveling.in.th/wiki/ Sun, 20 May 2012 08:55:52 +0700 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://www.traveling.in.th/wiki/lib/tpl/glfusion/images/favicon.ico http://www.traveling.in.th/wiki/ http://www.traveling.in.th/wiki/doku.php/bangkok?rev=1247185615&do=diff There has always been something somehow familiarizing in standing in a city center new to you and gazing at its expanse. That's ans impossibility in Bangkok. While there is an official city center, any choice is purely arbitrary. Bangkok vast, sprawling web of a metropolis, its threads wide avenues, its skeins tortuous alleyways or soi's, streets or thanons and overgrown canals or klongs. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:26:55 +0700 http://www.traveling.in.th/wiki/doku.php/geography?rev=1247577283&do=diff Thailand, for centuries known by outsiders as Siam, is centrally located in South-East Asia, almost the same distance from India and China. It has 2614 kilometers of coastline, with the Gulf of Thailand on the east, and the Andaman Sea on the west. It shares borders with Burma, Laos, Kampuchea and Malaysia. The area of 500,000 square kilometers is about the size of France. More than half the total area is forest and Savannah, and about forty-five percent is being cultivated. The population numbe… Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:14:43 +0700 http://www.traveling.in.th/wiki/doku.php/history?rev=1246842523&do=diff 'Siam' or 'Sayam' was a derivative of a Sankrit word, meaning roughly, 'golden yellow' or, or just possibly, 'green'. Either would make sense: there are gold mines, gold-leaf in architecture and worship is ubiquitous; and green, outside the capital of Bangkok, is evident in the mordancy of the country. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:08:43 +0700 http://www.traveling.in.th/wiki/doku.php/thai_people?rev=1246838080&do=diff Immigrants have been assimilated into the Thai population throughout the country's long history. Many were skilled people – dancers, writers, painters, sculptors, musicians and architects, and they helped to enrich the already existing culture. There is a rich ethnic diversity in Thailand's population – Thai, Mon, Khymer, Laotian, Chinese, Malay, Persian and Indian stock – and so there is no typical Thai face or physical type. People can be short, tall, dark-skinned or light-skinned. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:54:40 +0700 http://www.traveling.in.th/wiki/doku.php/thailand?rev=1247577439&do=diff Welcome to Thailand, the country of a thousand contradictions and a unique co-existence. Discover its fantastic architecture, its cultural values and lifestyle, and most of all the beauty of its people. Exotic but also cosmopolitan. Thailand offers fantastic value for money. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:17:19 +0700