Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
BANGKOK IN…
One Day
Get up as early as you can and take the
Chao Phraya Express Boat
(
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) to Tha Chang to explore the
museums and temples of
Ko Ratanakosin
(
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)
, followed by lunch in
Banglamphu
(
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). After
freshening up, gain a new perspective on Bangkok with sunset cocktails at one of the city's
rooftop bars
(
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here
), followed by an upscale Thai dinner at
nahm
(
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) or
Bo.lan
(
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).
Two Days
Allow the BTS to whisk you to various
shopping
(
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) destinations in central Bangkok and a visit to
Jim
Thompson House
, (
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)
punctuated by lunch at one of the city's
food courts
(
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)
. Wrap up the
daylight hours with a
traditional Thai massage
(
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). Then work off those calories at the nightclubs of
RCA
(
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).
Three Days
Spend a day at
Chatuchak Weekend Market
(
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), or if it's a weekday, enrol in a
cooking school
(
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here
). Unwind by bumping to a DJ set at
Cosmic Café
(
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) or swaying to live folk music at
Raintree
(
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)
.
Four Days
Take the MRT to
Chinatown
(
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)
for bustling markets and for some of the city's best old-school street
food. Contrast this with an evening of bar-hopping along
Thanon Sukhumvit
(
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).
Chinatown & Phahurat
Gold shops, towering neon signs and shopfronts spilling out onto the side-walk - wel-
come to Chinatown (also known as Yaowarat). The neighbourhood's energy is at once
exhilarating and exhausting, and it's fun to explore at night when it's lit up like a Christ-
mas tree and there's lots of street food for sale.
Just west is Phahurat, Bangkok's Little India: a seemingly endless bazaar uniting flam-
boyant Bollywood fabric, photogenic vendors selling
paan
(betel nut for chewing) and
shops stocked with delicious northern Indian-style sweets.
Wat Traimit
BUDDHIST TEMPLE
(Temple of the Golden Buddha; Th Mitthaphap (Th Traimit); admission 40B; 8am-5pm; Tha Ratchawong,
Hua Lamphong exit 1)
The attraction at Wat Traimit is undoubtedly the impressive 3m-tall,
5.5-tonne, solid-gold Buddha image, which gleams like, well, gold. Sculpted in the
graceful Sukhothai style, the image was 'discovered' some 40 years ago beneath a stucco
