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Bangkok Travel Guide
Located on Sukhumvit Soi 11 Road which is the heart of
Bangkok's business and entertainment center. Only few
steps away from BTS (Sky Train) Nana Station.
Bangkok, one of Asia's most thriving metropolis.
It's where everything is there to be discovered. This
colorful city is where you can experience down-to-earth
lifestyles to the most luxurious ones. You can pay from
two-hundred to a hundred thousand baht room for a night
in a hotel. You can have a 15 baht street side to a
million baht for dinner.
It's
new but old. The city sets countless sky scrapers in
metro business district. The antique lifestyle is also a
nice scene on both side of the Chao Praya waterway. If
you have one day in Bangkok, this page is a guide for
your plan exploring in this wonderland!
What you've heard lately in the news about the political
unrest might sound serious. It is actually unlike the
civil war. Outside the protest area, evertything happens
as usual as it has done. All the fun stuffs are waiting
to be explored here in Bangkok!
Places To Go
Despite being an ongoing metropolis, this megacity still
remains a numerous historical places where a great deal
of Thai ancient story is revealed. These are the places
you should never miss.
Wat Pra Kaew (The Royal
Monastery of the Emerald Buddha) and Grand
Palace
One place never to miss, just being there
you could feel the energy of the Thai people
in creating such a beautiful and elegant
Architectural master piece. Be aware of
tuk-tuks or taxi drivers trying to scam you
that it is close. If you are there before
3pm it is open!
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Wat Arun
Also known as Temple of the Dawn or Wat
Jaeng, it is located on the Thonburi side of
Chao Praya River opposite to Wat Po in
Bangkok side. This was the royal compound in
Taksin dynasty. The temple is influenced
from the mix of Thai, Khmer and Chinese art. |
Muang Boran (Ancient City)
The Ancient City Gateway to Thailand's
Cultural Heritage The Ancient City, MUANG
BORAN, is an excellent reflection of
Thailand's multi-faceted ancient culture
presented in an authentic and visually
exciting setting.
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Wat Po
This large and extensive temple neighbours
the Grand Palace on Thay Wang Road and
houses the very impressive gigantic gold
plated reclining Buddha which is some 46
metres long and 15 metres high.
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Bangkok National Museum
King Rama IV's private museum exhibiting his
own antiques collections. This museum
compounds 3 exhibition galleries: 1. The
Gallery of Thai History, 2. The
Archaeologicl and Art History Collections,
3. The Decorative Arts and Ethnological
Gallery.
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Shopping
If
you have one day to shop, these are the place you'll
definitely find all you need.
Siam Paragon
An upscale shopping mall located next
to Siam Center and opposite to Siam Square. It
is one of the biggest shopping centers in Asia
including a wide range of stores and retail
shops for internationally renown brands,
restaurants and food outlet and all kinds of
entertainment for city lives.
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Central World
An entertainment complex with hundreds of stores
and retail shop located at Ratchaprasong
intersection. It's also known by the local
people as 'World Trade Center.
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MBK
An enormous shopping mall in Bangkok. 2,500
shops in a of 89,000 square meters area. A whole
floor dedicated to mobile phones and
electronics. If you are from the west this place
may surprise you with the crowd that always get
in your way, that's how popular this place is.
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JJ Market
Open air shops, in 35 acres area, with
more than 15,000 shops and stalls. Here, the
range of products on sale is extensive including
house accessories, handicrafts, religious
artifacts, art, antiques, animal, books, music,
plant, food, etc. It is a good place to buy all
sorts of Thai handicrafts and bargaining is
expected. Open only on Saturdays and Sundays and
it is hot!
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Pratunam
The biggest Cloth & Dressing Wholesale Market
situated on Ratchprarob Road. The pratunam area
is noted for its street vendors as well as the
many shops that inhabit in the Baiyok Towers.
Here you may find a lot of retail merchants
purchasing wholesale products: clothes, fashion
accessories, cosmetics, etc
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Platinum
Clothing and accessories at wholesale prices in
an air-conditioned environment attracts a lot of
people to visit. Stuffs are in a wide range of
price but most of them are cheap. Each of the
floors sells different types of fashion items.
Pantip Plaza
It mega complex hardware and software. Pirated
softwares movies games porn.
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Things You Should Try
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Thai Traditional Massage
No oil just fingers hands elbow knees and foot
applied to you body with bending and stretching.
If you'd tried it you massage experience will
never be the same.
Spa
Because the nature of Thai people of being
serviced minded. A spa experience in Bangkok may
be one of the best. There are wide ranges of
treatment from massage treatments to body scrub,
facial, baths, to hair spa, bust firming and the
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Food
The Bangkokfood scene is enormous. Food from all over
the world can be found in this city. It's everywhere
from the street side to high-end restaurants.
Street side
In the city, there are countless mobile stalls and row
houses selling foods beside the streets around the city.
It is the Thai version of fast food, very cheap and can
be very good. Just make sure you find a clean one! Look
for ones with a lot of people.
Night Life
Kaosan; packpacers heaven with bars,
clubs and discos, a good combination of foriegn and
local crowds.
RCA, Over ten dance clubs (808,
Route 66, etc), live music and chill
out venues (Ratri Samosorn, etc) or
even the Gentleman club like the Forte, located as a
long street linking the Rama IV and Petchaburi road. It
is where you'll see many Thai teenagers hang out
especially on weekends.
Lower Sukhumvit; bars, pubs, dance
club, A gogos, you name it, it's there! Mostly targeted
towards international crowds.
Thonglor and Akekamai are also areas
for night owls. These areas can be packed with most
upscale locals and some japanese business man. The
popular venues are such as Santika, Curve or gentleman
club at Sherbet and etc.
Many hotel venues; There are also
places to chill out and listen live Jazz music with
recommended to ones such as the Living Room at Sheraton
Grand Sukhumvit, the Dilomat Bar at the Conrad Bangkok
or Bamboo Bar at the Oriental, or the 360 at the
Millennium Hilton.
Seems like one day is not enough to explore all these
interesting scenes in Bangkok. Even living in Bangkok,
we can not keep track of all cool places in the city. So
if you are here, just try things bits by bits. You'll
just fall in love with the city for sure.
Getting Around
A rush hour ride on motorcycle taxi
Imagine yourself getting fast through gaps between cars
during Bangkok's rush hour. This will be quite a thrill
and you will see how Bangkok traffic is actually like.
The pollution is the only bad thing about this try but
motorcycle helps get you through it fast.
Meter Taxi
the most comfortable way of
transportation with reasonable rates. It's
recommended you try to pick new ones. Visit
Taxi Siam page for more
info or just call 1661 when you need one. |
Bus
the cheapest way of transportation but
it may not be as comfortable in rush hours or
the busy routes. Besides, if you're not familiar
with the local area or you don't study enough
about the bus route, it can give you a headache
once you catch the wrong one. Check out the info
of Bangkok buses at
Bangkok Mass Transit
Authority website.
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Boat
transports along the Chao Praya river
and canals around the city. It's quite cheap and
faster than the land transportation usually
taken by those who travel to places near the
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BTS
the sky trains running along the two
main lines: Sukhumvit and Silom line. |
Motorcycle
guys wearing numbered waistcoat are
found everywhere in Bangkok. They can ride you
through alleys or main streets fast even in rush
hours. Riding on the motorcycle can be quite a
thrill while it costs as much as the meter taxi.
MRT
Bangkok metro system (the underground)
runs from Bangsue to Hualampong station.
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Urban Railway System
the most convenient and fastest way of
Bangkok transportation running in Bangkok urban
area. there are 2 systems which connects at many
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Getting to Other Province
Taxi- for near by provinces you can
take a taxi. Just call on out and ask for a price. From
Bangkok to Pattaya the fair can be from 1,000 -2,000
Baht.
Train—you can catch the train at the
Hua Lampong station. It is the center of Thailand
railway system.
Coach—There are three main bus
terminals in Bangkok: Mo Chit station, Southern station
and Ake-kamai station. Mo Chit is the center for the
northern route while the Southern station is the center
for the southern route and buses from Ake-kamai station
go East.
Airline—there are two airports in
Bangkok: Don Muang domestic airport for
Thai Airways and
Nok Air , and Suvannabhumi
International airport where hosts many different
airlines from all over the world.
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