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    <title>Roadside Thailand — Newest discoveries</title>
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      <title>Ancient City (Muang Boran)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Billed as the world&apos;s largest open-air museum — a vast park, shaped like Thailand itself, scattered with full-size and scaled replicas of the country&apos;s greatest monuments, best explored by bicycle over a whole unhurried day.</description>
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      <title>Bangkok Snake Farm (Queen Saovabha Institute)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The world&apos;s second-oldest antivenom facility — a working Red Cross research centre where you can watch live venom-extraction shows and meet cobras, vipers, and king cobras in the heart of the city.</description>
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      <title>The Bridge on the River Kwai</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The black steel bridge of book and film fame — part of the WWII Death Railway built by POW and conscripted labour at terrible cost — still carrying trains across the Khwae Yai at Kanchanaburi.</description>
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      <title>Don Hoi Lot</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A vast sandbar at the mouth of the Mae Klong River, famous for its colonies of razor clams — at low tide locals wade out to harvest them, and a strip of seafood shacks serves the catch within metres of where it was dug.</description>
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      <title>Erawan Falls</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A seven-tiered waterfall in Erawan National Park whose upper pools glow an almost unreal turquoise — you climb alongside the cascades through jungle, swimming in emerald basins where little fish nibble your toes.</description>
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      <title>The Erawan Museum</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A colossal three-headed bronze elephant the size of a building, with a jewel-box temple-museum inside its belly and legs — climb a spiral staircase up through the body into a cosmic &apos;heaven&apos; beneath the creature&apos;s heads.</description>
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      <title>The Giant Rain Tree (Chamchuri Giant Tree)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A single colossal monkeypod (rain) tree more than a century old, its canopy spreading so wide that a boardwalk loops beneath it — a quiet, cathedral-like green giant on the outskirts of Kanchanaburi.</description>
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      <title>The Giant Swing (Sao Ching Cha)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A towering 21-metre teak arch in old Bangkok, painted brilliant red — all that remains of a daredevil Brahmin harvest ceremony in which men once swung up to grab a bag of coins with their teeth.</description>
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      <title>Hellfire Pass Memorial</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A deep rock cutting on the WWII &apos;Death Railway,&apos; hewn by hand by Allied POWs and Asian labourers under unimaginable conditions — now a moving memorial and forest walk along the vanished tracks, with one of Asia&apos;s most thoughtful museums.</description>
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      <title>Khao Bin Cave (Tham Khao Bin)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A long, well-lit show cave near Ratchaburi threading through a series of named chambers full of dramatic stalactites and flowstone formations — cool, quiet, and easy to walk.</description>
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      <title>Khao Chi Chan (Buddha Mountain)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A 109-metre golden Buddha laser-etched and gold-inlaid into the sheer face of a limestone cliff — a serene giant gazing out over a lake and lotus garden, created to save the scarred quarry mountain from further blasting.</description>
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      <title>Khao Ngu Stone Park</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A reclaimed limestone quarry turned tranquil park, where emerald flooded pits sit beneath sheer cliffs — one of them carved with an ancient Dvaravati-era Buddha relief, reached by a short climb to a breezy viewpoint.</description>
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      <title>Maeklong Railway Market</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A fresh market that does business directly on a live railway track — and several times a day, as a train rolls through inches from the produce, vendors calmly fold back their awnings and pull in their baskets, then reset the moment it passes.</description>
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      <title>Phanom Rung Historical Park</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A thousand-year-old Khmer temple crowning an extinct volcano, where four times a year the rising or setting sun lines up perfectly through all fifteen sanctuary doorways in a single blazing shaft of light.</description>
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      <title>Phra Nang Princess Cave</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A seaside grotto on a stunning Krabi beach crammed with hundreds of carved and painted wooden phalluses — offerings to a sea princess spirit from fishermen seeking safe passage and a good catch.</description>
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      <title>Phra Pathom Chedi</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>At 120 metres, the tallest Buddhist stupa in the world — a colossal orange-gold bell rising over Nakhon Pathom on the site where Buddhism is believed to have first reached the region nearly two millennia ago.</description>
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      <title>Sai Yok Noi Waterfall</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A wide, easygoing roadside waterfall near Nam Tok where the river fans down a limestone face into shallow pools — a favourite local cool-off spot at the far end of the Death Railway line.</description>
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      <title>Sala Kaew Ku Sculpture Park</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A riverside field of towering, surreal concrete deities — a seven-headed naga, a wheel of life, and a 25-metre Buddha — built by a self-taught mystic who blended Hindu and Buddhist visions into one of Asia&apos;s strangest sculpture gardens.</description>
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      <title>Talat Noi</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A tangled riverside old-town quarter where a century-old Chinese community, vintage car-part workshops, and bold street murals share narrow lanes — one of Bangkok&apos;s most photogenic neighbourhoods to simply get lost in.</description>
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      <title>Tham Krasae &amp; the Wang Pho Viaduct</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A curving wooden trestle of the WWII Death Railway that clings to a limestone cliff above the River Kwai — trains still rumble across it, and a small cave shrine sits right where the tracks hug the rock.</description>
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      <title>Tham Lod Cave</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A vast river cave you float through on a bamboo raft by lantern light, past stalactite chambers, ancient teak coffins on high ledges, and a dusk sky that fills with hundreds of thousands of swifts pouring in to roost.</description>
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      <title>Tham Phraya Nakhon</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A collapsed cavern open to the sky, where a single golden royal pavilion stands in a shaft of sunlight that pours through the ceiling each morning — reached by a steep climb and a short boat ride along a national-park coast.</description>
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      <title>Wat Bang Kung (The Temple in the Tree)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A small Ayutthaya-era ordination hall completely swallowed by the roots of four enormous banyan and bodhi trees — the living wood now forms the temple&apos;s outer walls, with a Buddha image glowing in the green gloom inside.</description>
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      <title>Wat Chaiwatthanaram</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The most majestic temple ruin in Ayutthaya — a Khmer-inspired complex of a tall central prang ringed by smaller towers on the riverbank, breathtaking at sunset and a favourite backdrop for traditional Thai-dress photos.</description>
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      <title>Wat Khao Chong Phran (The Bat Cave Temple)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Every evening at dusk, an unbroken river of millions of wrinkle-lipped bats pours from a cliff cave beside this Ratchaburi temple for nearly an hour — one of the great wildlife spectacles of central Thailand.</description>
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      <title>Wat Mahathat (The Buddha Head in the Tree)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Among the brick ruins of one of Ayutthaya&apos;s most important monasteries, a serene stone Buddha head rests cradled in the roots of a banyan tree — Thailand&apos;s most haunting image of nature and history grown together.</description>
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      <title>Wat Pariwat (The David Beckham Temple)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A working Bangkok temple whose ornate decoration hides pop-culture cameos — most famously a small gilded figure of footballer David Beckham among the traditional guardians at the base of the main altar.</description>
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      <title>Wat Rong Khun (The White Temple)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A blindingly white, mirror-encrusted temple where a sea of reaching hands rises from a pit before the bridge to enlightenment — a contemporary artist&apos;s fever-dream of heaven, hell, and pop culture.</description>
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      <title>Wat Samphran (The Dragon Temple)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A startling 17-storey pink cylindrical tower with an enormous green dragon coiled around the outside — you can climb up through the dragon&apos;s hollow body to a shrine near the top.</description>
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      <title>Wat Tham Suea (Tiger Cave Temple, Kanchanaburi)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A hilltop temple crowned by an enormous seated golden Buddha, reached by a dragon-railed stairway — the terrace looks out over a patchwork of rice fields and the Mae Klong dam, especially gorgeous at sunset.</description>
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