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		<title>How My Appreciation Of Thailand Was Renewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people assume that culture shock is something you experience when you come from one cultural environment into a totally different one.  Mostly this is happening when visitors from first world developed nations visit a developing nation or a third world country where everything is more chaotic, unorganized and unpredictable. I have been living in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing Street Performance in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year the city of Chiang Mai, Thailand, hosts several huge festivals. Visitors come by the tens of thousands from Thailand and abroad. The performances are truly spectacular. While wandering around the festival site I came across a group of  students who were showcasing martial arts, dancing and drumming.]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Know About Thailand&#8217;s juice paradise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every evening I go for a walk near the university of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Most of the students don&#8217;t cook much, first because almost none of the apartments here have kitchens. And second, you can buy food very easily and cheaply right on the street. There is a wonderful little juice place where I get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Escape to Paradise in Phuket, Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My home town of Chiang Mai, Thailand, gets unbearably hot during the months of March and April. This is the perfect time to escape to the beaches of southern Thailand where the climate is much more pleasant at that time. This time I spent a few weeks in Phuket which is Thailand&#8217;s largest island. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetarian Festival in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year Thailand celebrates a nine day long vegetarian food festival. When I tell a Thai person that I am a vegetarian, the usual reaction is something like: &#8216;Very good, that&#8217;s great for your health, I admire that, but I could never do it&#8221;. But during those nine days of the vegetarian festival many Thais [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Musicians in a Market in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I went shopping in my local produce market here in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and there was a band of blind musicians performing for donations. I thought they were quite good, and I captured one of their songs on video. There are quite a few blind street musicians in Thailand, but you rarely find any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beautiful Faces of Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thailand is known as the land of smiles, but it is also the land of beautiful faces. Here is a stunning visual presentation of one the most endearing aspects of Thai culture, the naturally beautiful faces of the Thai people.]]></description>
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		<title>Spirits and Ghosts in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has traveled in Thailand has probably noticed a little &#8220;toy house&#8221; near most buildings. Those are spirit houses. Thailand is a Buddhist country, but the Thais have retained quite a few of their animistic beliefs that stem from pre-Buddhist times. So Thai Buddhism is mixed with a spirit based religion. The Thais hardly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Thai Massage Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the last eight months developing a unique Thai massage video course. It enables anyone to learn Thai massage from home in a gradual and relaxed way over a period of a few months. I had to focus all my energy on the development of this massage video course. 35 course modules, 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A good show in a Chiang Mai market</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I went to my local fruit and veggie market here in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and to my surprise there was a stage set up and there was a whole big show going on. It was put on by a phone company to promote their products, but the unusual thing was that they had some [...]]]></description>
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