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HDR-tonedMarch 2012

An endless array of products, each one more colorful than the other. Do not forget to bargain, the asking price may be up to three times

higher than what you end up paying!

PATPONG - BANGKOK

Copied bags

PATPONG - BANGKOK

T-shirt? Special price for you!

PATPONG - BANGKOK

A trip by Tuk Tuk in the dense Bangkok traffic is a gamble with your life in stake.But before you tried it at least once your visit to the big city does not count. Remember to agree on a price before you get into your vehicle and be certain of where you want to go.

TUK TUK IN BANGKOK

Like a ghost it arrives to the station. SkyTrain is carrying about 450.000 passengers per day and started operating in December 1999.

SKYTRAIN - BANGKOK

Yeah, thanx for that finger;)I do not know if it says it all about Khao San Road or if it says moreabout the visitors to this popular road, particularly omongst backpackers?

KHAO SAN ROAD BANGKOK

When its raining in Bangkok, its really raining like nowhere else! The driver has taken cover in his vehicle

to escape the heavy rain. Anyway it was time for the daily lunch nap!

HEAVY RAIN

Choose to order your favorite beer from the beautiful girl who represents the beer company. Or, choose to order from your favorite girl -they are always so nice and courtesy.

KHAO SAN ROAD

If youre out shopping, you will most likely end up at MBK. It takes at least one full day to run through all the infinite small shops, there is more than

2.500 of them and averidge 100.000 visitors per day. Do not forget to bargain!

MBK (Mah Boon Krong)

Once you find your way to the escalators it might be nice to take an extra run. Here’s a good chance to rest your poor legs for a while...

MBK Bangkok

Renovations are still ongoing at time of writing but soon every space have had their new plumage to be to be completed after the red shirts rampage in May 2010.

CENTRAL WORLD

Red Sky RestaurantAt Centara Hotel you find this spectacular vine cellar. It is built entirely of acryllic and therefore transparent. The bottles are downloaded to you by nice vine angels hanging from ropes that hoisted up and down.

GRAND AT CENTARA

This was the view from the backside of building before it got its facelift.

CENTRAL WORLD - ZEN

“Sure you can take a picture of us”. Here is the wine angels whom ensures that your meal can be enjoyed with good wine. Flying should be every person’s right in life!

VINE ANGELS AT CENTARA GRAND

At the top you have the restaurant with its distinctive bar. One fine evening you will experience a wonderful meal while you have a breathtaking view of Bangkok at 360 degrees.

CENTARA GRAND

It’s been a while since royals were running around the courtyard to the castle. Nowadays, you can expect to mingle with ordinary people. Do not forget to put on your pants and something that covers your shoulders.

ROYAL CASTLE - GRAND PALACE

The palace has been the official residence of the Kings of Siam (later Thailand) since 1782. The king,his court and his royal government were based here until 1925. King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), cur-

rently resides at Chitralada Palace, but the Grand Palace is still used for some official events.

ROYAL PALACE

Pinnacles and towers painted golden. Thats the way an old fashioned castle should loke like.

ROYAL PALACE

The palace has beautiful decorations around the area.

ROYAL PALACE

Renovation and restoration is ongoing. This statue would need a round with the brush, when was the last time you get your beak polished?

TUK TUK IN BANGKOK

A short walk from the royal castle you will find this enormous golden shimmering Buddha. Known also as the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, its official name is Wat Phra Chettuphon

Wimon Mangkhalaram Ratchaworamahawihan.

WAT PHO - RECLINING BUDDHA

Tall and stately it stretches out to its full length.

WAT PHO - RECLINING BUDDHA

The full name of the temple is Wat Arunratchawararam Ratchaworamahawihan. Wat Arun Rajwararam or the Temple of Dawn, is named after Aruna, the Indian God of Dawn. The Wat Arun is considered one

of the most well known of Thailand’s many landmarks. Not far from Grand Palace.

WAT ARUN

Once the highest building in Thailand before Tower two was raised year 1997. Still operates as a affordable hotel in Pratunam district.

BAIYOKE TOWER l

The building is 304 m (997 ft) tall, or 328 m (1,076 ft) tall with the antenna included. It has 85 floors, with a public observatory on the 77th floor, a bar called “Roof Top Bar & Music Lounge” on the 83rd floor,

a 360-degree revolving roof deck on the 84th floor and the hotel offers 673 guest rooms.

BAIYOKE TOWER ll

At the highest top of Baiyoke building. There is also the highest open-air golf range in Thailand, with the width of 30 yards and the length of 35 yards, located on 18th floor.

BAIYOKE BUILDING

The Erawan Shrine, San Phra Phrom, is a Hindu shrine in Bangkok, that houses a statue of Phra Phrom, the Thai representation of the Hindu creation god Brahma.

ERAWAN SHRINE

A popular tourist attraction as it often features performances by resident Thai dance troupes who are hired by worshippers in return for seeing their prayers at the shrine answered.

ERAWAN SHRINE

Bangkok’s Hua Lamphong Railway Station on Rama IV Road is the central hub for all rail travel in Thailand. The railway-lines reach out to all four directions, from south to north, or east to west, one will

not only have to pass through Hua Lamphong Station but also change trains as all lines end in Bangkok.

HUA LAMPHONG RAILWAYSTATION

The station was opened on 25 June 1916, after six years of construction. The site of the railway station was previously the national railway’s maintenance centre. They moved to Makkasan in June 1910.

HUA LAMPHONG TRAINSTATION

It is hard to believe it is central Bangkok as you enter through the gates to Lumphini Park. A lovely oasis in the middle of town that you should visit if you get the opportunity. But

beware the big lizzards that rustle in the bushes. The biggest is nearly six feet long.

LUMPINI PARK

Big lizzard.

LUMPINI PARK

Pantip Plaza on Phetchaburi Rdis a six-floor shopping mall devoted to computer gear, famous for its pirated media. The bootleg trade is much more low-key than it used to be, but software and DVDs are

still widely available. It is even a good place for cameras, gadgets, printers, MP3-players, etc.

PANTIP PLAZA

The Platinum Fashion Mall is a 5 billion baht shopping mall in Pratunam. Specialized in fashion clothes and accessories retail and wholesale. The clothes shops operate on the principle that buying 1 piece is a retail sale and warrants retail price, but buying 3 (or more) pieces is wholesale and you get the wholesale price. An example of pricing structure is 1 men’s shirt retail 250 baht, 3 shirts wholesale 500 baht.

PLATINUM - PRATUNAM

PRATUNAM SHOPPING AREA

A stone’s throw from the flashy shopping centers youll find Pratunam shopping area with all shops spread out on every available surface. Without air conditioning

you can expect to sweat a bit but so are pricing well below the major department stores.

PRATUNAM

The construction of the first subway line in Bangkok, officially known as Chaloem Ratchamongkhonor informally as the “Blue Line”, began on 19 November 1996. The project had several delays, not only because of the economic crisis in 1997, but also because of the challenging construction in underground structures deep in the water, the land on which the town is built. Opened July 3, 2004.

LUMPINI SUBWAY STATION

The monument was erected in June 1941 to celebrate the Thai “victory” in the French-Thai War, a short conflict against the French colonial authorities in Indochina, which resulted in Thailand annexing territories in western Cambodia and northern and southern Laos. Areas of the Kingdom of Siam that they been forced to

give up to France in 1893 and 1904, and patriotic Thais considered rightfully belong to Thailand.

VICTRORY MONUMENT

If you dont have the money to stay at the venerable Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, you can take the boat over for a nice lunch. The boat is free but lunch costs a few baht more than if you eat from the cart on the street outside.

ORIENTAL BOAT SHUTTLE

Paperbirds flying around in the stairways to the big shopping complex.

GAYSORN PLAZA

GREAT VIEWIf you take the elevator to the top of the Baiyoke new building, you expect it to blow a little, but once you open your windswept eyes you have a view that is not to be trifled with.

VIEW FROM BAIYOKE BUILDING

Feathers and sequins Finally we found our favorite store! Now it’s to decide what may be the best

to this autumn’s glorious company party. I’ve always been fond of red!

PRATUNAM

Once up on a time

SUAN LUN NIGHT BAZAAR

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At the end of 2010 we lost an establishment that for long time put a profile on the city. Suan Lun began to be demolished to make room for new hotels and offices.

SUAN LUN NIGHT BAZAAR

WAT TRAIMIT AND GOLDEN BUDDHA is about 900 years old and is cast in the Sukhothai style. When the Burmese were about to sack the city, it was covered in plaster to hide it. In 1957, when the image was being moved to a new temple in Bangkok, it slipped from a crane and was left in the mud by workmen. In the morning, a temple monk, who had dreamed that the statue was divinely inspired, went to see the Buddha image. Through a crack in the plaster he saw a glint of yellow, and discovered that the statue was pure gold. World’s largest solid-gold Buddha, nearly 10 feet high and over 5 tons.

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