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BANGKOK PUBLISHING DATE: 2008-01-18 | COUNTRY CODE: TH Contents: the City, Do & See, Eating, Bars & Nightlife, Shopping, Sleeping, Essential Information ADVERTISING AREA Massor av läckra väskor! BANGKOK PUBLISHING DATE: 2008-01-18 | COUNTRY CODE: TH Contents: The City, Do & See, Eating, Bars & Nightlife, Shopping, Sleeping, Essential Information Copyright © 2007 Fastcheck AB. All rights reserved. For more information visit: www.arrivalguides.com Population: 10 million Currency: Thai Baht, 1 Baht = 100 satang Opening hours: Shops are generally open Mon–Sat 8am to 8pm. Banks are generally open Mon–Fri 9.30am to 3.30pm except on public and bank holidays. Internet: www.sawadee.com www.tat.or.th www.bangkoktonight.com Newspapers: Bangkok Post Thai Rath The Nation Daily News Emergency numbers: Tourist Police: 1155, 1699 Police, Ambulance: 191 Fire: 199 Tourist Assistance Center: 0-2281-5051/0-2282-8129 Tourist information: BANGKOK Tourism Authority of Thailand TAT Address : 1600 New Phetburi Road, Makkasan, A visit to this fascinating, vibrant and cosmopolitan city is a Rajatevee must when in Thailand. Bangkok will welcome you with Tel: +66 (0)2250 5500 Open Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm. gleaming skyscrapers as well as historical temples and Closed on weekends and public holidays. www.tourismthailand.org luxury hotels. The past, present and future are harmonious intertwined. Visit the floating markets, ride the famous tuk-tuks, explore some of the city’s nightlife, experience the excitement of a Muay Thai boxing match or go bargain shopping. Bangkok caters to all your tastes and certainly personifies the country’s slogan “Amazing Thailand”. A GOOD IDEA COMES ALONG ONCE IN A WHILE. MAKE IT GREAT. You know that thought that comes to you at 3am? You need to capture it, right there and then. In all its raw glory. Only then can you change it and make it better. Get inspired and be creative with Gwen Stefani at hp.com/eur/gwen HP Planet Partners Programme is committed to helping the environment through our recycling and take-back programne – now available in 30 countries. For details, see hp.com/uk/recycle. ©2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. All rights reserved. DESTINATION: BANGKOK |PUBLISHING DATE: 2008-01-18 THE CITY not be missed. The influence of the past is not limited to major monuments and it continues to colour daily life. Files of robbed monks making their early morning merit rounds, present a scene seemingly unaltered in time. DO & SEE Bangkok is the Orient’s most cosmopolitan city and has attractions to stimulate even the most experienced travellers. Created as the Thai capital in 1782 by the first monarch of the present Chakri dynasty, Bangkok is a national treasure house and Thailand’s spiritual, cultural, political, commercial, educational and diplomatic centre. Bangkok as a city is absolutely brimming The city has 50 districts and has grown to with fresh and amazing attractions both span over six provinces. The main business cultural and entertaining to much to pack districts and residential areas are ever into a guide of this size but most all of expanding. The Phra Nakhon district them are worth seeing. Below are a few of alongside Dusit is where most the best attractions in Bangkok. governmental agencies and ministries head their offices as well as the most famous Grand Palace tourist attractions, such as Grand Palace, This is an absolute must. The Grand Palace Democracy Monument, Giant Swing, is an outstanding architectural Sanam Luang and other venues. achievement; it is also home to the Bangkok, Thailand’s major gateway, casts infamous Emerald Buddha, which is the an irresistible spell of enchantment. To the most revered Buddha image in Thailand. Thais it is Krung Thep, “City of Angels”, Go early in the morning to avoid the major and you will find it is a truly magic place. crowds, it will still be busy but getting Joyfully exuberant, Bangkok embraces there around 9.00 will give you a little modern development and presents a more space. Do not wear shorts when you picture of rising office towers, world-class visit (it is considered rude). To get there, hotels and shopping malls packed with you can either take a taxi, or the Sky train treasures of the East; like silks and to Sapan Thaksin. Walk down to the pier gemstones. And yet amidst all this and take the daily ferry. Bangkok still manages to preserve its Address: Na Phra Lan Road, near Sanam Luang Phone: +66 (0)2 222 0094 cultural heritage to an amazing degree. The rich splendour of the Grand Palace, the Wat Pho Temple of the Emerald Buddha, the Temple The Temples of the Reclining Buddha, is of the Dawn, and other historic shrines can directly adjacent to the Grand Palace. It MAKE YOUR TRIP START AT HOME | WWW.ARRIVALGUIDES.COM DESTINATION: BANGKOK |PUBLISHING DATE: 2008-01-18 houses more than 1000 Buddha images Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm & Zoo and the largest single Buddha image; 46m The Crocodile Farm is 33 kilometres away long and 15m high, decorated with gold from Bangkok and is the world’s largest plating and mother of pearl in its eyes and crocodile farm. The place is enormous with soles of its feet. over 60,000 fresh and seawater crocodiles Address: Sanam Chai road and Maharaj road to see. Watch the feeding of the crocodiles Phone: +66 (0)2 225 9595 - a show is held every hour. The farm also Internet: watpho.com houses other creatures such as snakes, Khon Masked Dance gibbons, lions and trained elephants. Watch Khon, Thailand’s classical masked Address: 555 M.7, Taiban District, Amphoe Muang, Samutprakarn dance at the Sala Chalermkrung Theatre. Phone: +66 (0)2 703 4891 to 5 The dance is regarded one of the most refined of performing arts and was Lumphini Park originally limited to the royal court. Held Bangkok’s biggest green lung, named after every Friday and Saturday. Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal, is crammed Address: 66 Charoen Krung Road, Phra Nakhon with a motley crew of tai chi students, Phone: +66 (0)2224 4499 people singing karaoke, vendors selling Internet: salachalermkrung.com snake blood and bile chess players, Abhisek Dusit Throne Hall joggers, and kite flyers. Some say it’s the This East-meets-West royal building was best way to escape Bangkok without built by King Chulalongkorn, the first Thai leaving town; we say, join the throng. monarch to visit Europe. Visions of his Address: Rama IV Road, Wangmai Subdistrict, Patumwan travels must still have been swimming in his head when he commissioned the throne Siam Ocean World hall, a stunning, intricate building which, Bangkok’s new Aquarium. Thailand and despite its Western influences, has a Southeast Asia’s biggest aquatic and distinctly Thai exterior. education center. Siam Ocean World aquarium features more than 30,000 Address: Ratchawithi Road, across from Dusit Zoo Phone: +66 (0)2628 6300 aquatic creatures from 400 species. You can even take a real dive with real sharks. Ancient City Internet: siamoceanworld.co.th Meuang Boran is billed as the largest open-air museum in the world. Over a Floating Market hundred of Thailand’s most impressive This world famous market is 80 Kilometres monuments are rendered slightly less outside of Bangkok. You can take an impressive in this 80-hectare (200-acre) organised tour or a bus from the Southern collection of scale models. The attraction is Bus Terminal. Every day boats crowd the south of the Thai capital, near the coast of market area early morning until around the Gulf of Thailand. Depending on traffic, noon. If you wish you can travel around in it can take as long as two hours to make boat and see a little of what Thai village the trip. life is like. Address: Samut Prakan (33 km SE of Bangkok) Address: Damnernsaduak Phone: +66 (0)2 2241057 Underground: Lumpini Boxing Stadium Internet: ancientcity.com Phone: +66 (0)2 251 4303 MAKE YOUR TRIP START AT HOME | WWW.ARRIVALGUIDES.COM DESTINATION: BANGKOK |PUBLISHING DATE: 2008-01-18 EATING busy shopping area and you’re bound to find something to suit your taste here, may it be European, American, Mexican, Indian, Middle Eastern, Japanese or Thai. Soi Nana and Soi Thonglor are well known for their food stalls and restaurants. Silom Road Bangkok’s business district offers all kinds of food; seafood stalls can be found in the Saladaeng intersection, Indonesian and Where ever you go in Bangkok there’s no Irish foor around Convent Road, Japanese shortage of eating options. Eat in a by Soi Thaniya, Thai food by Soi Phipat roadside noodle stall and watch the world and there’s also Soi Lalaisup – the lunch go by. Savour fresh seafood at a local market. restaurant perched over the river, enjoy exquisite food from a swish hotel Soi Langsuan “a Hidden Gem“ restaurant overlooking the city, or take a One of Bangkok’s best kept secrets, this up quick snack in a shopping mall food court. and coming boulevard is fertile ground for Whatever you choose, and wherever you fresh new restaurants springing up are staying, you won’t be disappointed. As everywhere. Each one from Italian to Thai there are so many restaurants, food stalls is uniquely charming and refreshing. The and market places to choose from, boulevard itself is surrounded by trees and recommending places to eat is not easy. foliage, which makes for a good stroll Some areas worth mentioning are: before or after you meal. Here is a selection of restaurants around Soi Yaowarat Road Langsuan. This is Bangkok’s Chinatown with plenty of food stalls, Chinese restaurants and some The Ninth Cafe of the best dim sum lunches around. With its modern airy decor, Italian/Thai food, great ambiance “the Ninth Café” is a Phahurat Road great place for an afternoon bite or a Not far from Yaowarat’s Chinatown you delicious dinner experience.
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