Bangkok: Erotic Pulses of the City

Bangkok Night Tours

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One of the most popular attractions close to Bangkok, you will feel like a king as you wander through the vast complex. While in Ayutthaya, take in the Historical Park. The Siamese moved their capital to Ayutthaya around AD and created a royal palace and many impressive monasteries and Wats in the area.

In the mid 's the Burmese sacked it and the city was abandoned. If you prefer, head to the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market and see Thais going about their everyday life in a truly unique setting.

Bangkok: Erotic Pulses of the City

Transportation is via the Bangkok skytrain, or by taxi where needed. If you want to venture further afield, you will be taken by comfortable minivan and have the services of a professional driver. Everything can be arranged through your friendly guide, who will take you to the areas most of interest to you and share their expert local knowledge in a fun and fascinating way to make the city your Bangkok. See more See less. When you get there Meeting point.

Bangkok by Night Tuk Tuk Tour: Markets, Temples & Food

If we are traveling outside Bangkok skytrain or Taxi range, we hire reliable minivans with professional drivers. This is an extra cost that will be worked out with you while planning the tour. Give this as a gift Add to wishlist. You might also like Hiring a car with a driver-guide is a more expensive but preferable alternative to "seat-in-coach tours". This will permits tailor-made itineraries to be enjoyed in comfort. However, since the driver is likely to have his own shopping recommendations, the same aforementioned advice applies. The old part of the city - Rattanakosin "Island" presumably because it was once encircled by canals boasts the fewest hotels, but arguably contains the most interest, and this is perhaps the only part of the city suitable for a walking sightseeing tour.

Also worth noting is the Lakmuang Pillar, which commemorates the founding of Bangkok years ago and is, now a popular shrine featuring regular classical dance performances.

The appeal of Thai temples lies not only in their aesthetic allure, but also in their wonderful accessibility, since they are open to visitors of all faiths. As well as serving as a place for worship, religious ceremonies, education, and community ceremonies, their tranquil interiors offer sanctuary from an increasingly stressful exterior, and provide an excellent place for contemplation for Thais and tourists alike.

Organised excursions usually include the most famous, ie. Wat Po , reclining Buddha Wat Traimitr Golden Buddha and Wat Benjamabophitr Marble temple which can all suffer from visitor overload, and a return trip at dawn or dusk when the coaches have gone is worth the effort. But it is the smaller least-visited ones, often hidden in quiet corners of the city, where Thai Temple Magic is most often discovered - and since there are more than temples in Bangkok, the potential for magic is considerable.

Like so many sightseeing pleasures in the Kingdom, day markets are inevitably best appreciated at sunrise, and it is worth rising at first light to enjoy them at their coolest, most colourful best. Amongst the many waiting to be explored are the wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market at Pak Klong Talaad , the plant market at Thewes, the clothes market at Pratunam next to Amari Watergate , the markets of Chinatown see below , the night market of Pat Pong , and of course the Mother of all Markets at Chatuchak every weekend.

Not for the faint-hearted, this sprawling, crowded area guarantees a mega-buzz for those who enjoy feeling the pulse of a city directly through the jugular. Chinatown encompasses the equally worth visiting Thieves and Pahurat markets which are within easy walking distance. If you have time, your list might also include the National Museum , largest in S. The Chao Phya river, plus the wealth of natural and man-made attractions which line its banks, provide a non-stop panoply of fascination.

Numerous tour options are available, including day trips to the former Thai capital of Ayuthaya , and dinner cruises which allow you to experience the big river as a combination of darkness, reflections, and city lights.

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Arguably the most fun and certainly the best value is a return ride on the public river boat the Chaophya Express or Reua Duan to its Nonthaburi terminus. The round trip takes approximately three hours and you can get off at any of the numerous stops where something catches your interest. Visitors returning to Bangkok after an absence of a few decades are stunned to discover the exotic Venice-like city they once knew is now firmly embedded in concrete.

Many of the long straight roads clogged with vehicles used to be waterways filled with boats.

Few klongs remain, but those that do are worth visiting, particularly on the opposite Thonburi side of the river. Tours exist, but a privately arranged trip exploring the smaller lesser-known and often tiny channels is much preferable.

For the pioneering traveller, numerous "longtail" public boats operate in this remaining network, and using these local services can be a wonderful experience. Unless you speak enough Thai to find your way around, a local guide is recommended. The excellence of Thai cuisine needs little introduction, even though Thai restaurants overseas tend to serve blander variations of the art.

One of the best ways of appreciating the subtleties is participating in a Thai cooking class where students first shop for the ingredients and herbs in the local market before learning how to blend and combine them into the simply extraordinary taste sensations they provide.

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