Bangkok
Bangkok
The city of Bangkok and one of the largest big cities in the world with a population of more than 9 million people, is one of the cities that are characterized by congestion of traffic and extreme heat and bustling nightlife, which is also one of the Asian cities most cosmopolitan with temples and magnificent palaces, canals broad and major shopping centers , and review the most important monuments and places of tourist attractions in Bangkok.
Khao San Road
Is a small road located about a block from the Chao Phraya River, and translates the name rice milled and was formerly a market for rice in Bangkok in the past twenty years, and is characterized by Ptovi cheap accommodation where bars and food stalls and shops, restaurants and cafes, the Internet and travel agencies.
Bangkok Klongs
Klong translated from Thai canal was people all over Thailand Klong use of transport, trade and gained the title of Venice of the East.
Home of Jim Thompson
A CIA operative infamous Jim Thompson reviving the Thai silk industry after World War II, a component of the six houses on the Thai-style traditional, as the Thompson building company silk its own and became a collector of art major in Southeast Asia, and there is the house on the side the other from Klong.
Wat Arun
Located on the Thonburi side of the Chao Phraya River and the Temple of Dawn, which means one of the oldest tourist attractions in Bangkok which architectural representation of Mount Meru, the center of the universe in Buddhist cosmology and the best view of him in the evening at sunset.
World Central
Opened in 1990 and rises to eight floors, a shopping center for the middle class and was one of the most places recording been set on fire by anti-government protesters, and this was in May 2010 and reopened after months of renovations in the September 28, 2010 with 80% of the retail space open for charity .
Almtke Buddha Temple or Wat Pho
Temple of the existence of a famous statue of Buddha Almtke It is one of the largest temples in Bangkok and the oldest was built about 200 years before, and the statue of Buddha Almtke gold-plated and a length of 46 meters and rises 15 meters.
The Grand Palace
Its construction began in 1782, when the capital was moved from Siam from Thonburi to Bangkok, and was the residence of the kings of Thailand even occurred the death of King Ananda Mahidol in 1946, the mysterious, which is today a major tourist attraction in Bangkok and devotes part of the royal compound to build a temple Wat Phra Kaew .
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