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Wachira Benjathat, Chatuchak and Queen Sirikit Park Complex 

1/30/2016

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Wachira Benjathat, Chatuchak and Queen Sirikit Park Complex is a vast area of park land, beautifully maintained, and a great area to enjoy Thailand's nature right in the middle of downtown Bangkok.  The park complex is located just to the north of the Chatchuchak Weekend Market and easily accessible through either the Subway (at the Chatuchak Station) or the Skytrain (at the Mo Chit Station). The park complex offers many kilometers of running/walking/biking trails to allow the city dwellers to get their exercise and enjoy the beauty of the parks.  Each of the park areas has a particular feel as described below. 

Chatuchak Park

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​Chatuchak Park is separated from the other two parks by Kamphaeng Phet 3 Road.  Chatuchak is more of an exercise park, with exercise stations and a wide and long jogging trail surrounding the lakes. The park is dominated by a long lake bisecting the center of the park and providing fantastic views and wildlife on your walk around the park.  This park is also most crowded due to its close location to both Bangkok's subway and skytrain. 

Wachira Benjathat Park (Rot Fai Park)

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​Wachira Benjathat Park (also called Rot Fai Park) historically was an old train station area which was later used as a golf course.  This Park still feels like a golf course with long fairways and many water hazards. The golf course layout can still be seen in the layout of park walkways.  This park has a great Butterfly Garden and insectarium where technicians hatch a variety of colorful butterflies which are allow to roam freely within a aviary style enclosure.  This allows for up close inspection of the butterflies and affords great photographs and videos. This Park also has the Bang Sue Environmental and Education Center, whose primary focus is educating the visitors of the facility  on the importance of environment resources. The focus of the education is conservation as well as integrating and promoting the healthy urban environments. The building design is quite unique in that the entire side of the building which faces the park has a 100-meter-long active waterfall.  The water feeding the waterfall is recycled water which is first treated in the waste water treatment plant which lies beneath the building. 
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Wachira Benjathat Park Photo Set

​Queen Sirikit Park

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​Queen Sirikit Park is a beautifully manicured garden area. This park has three circular ponds throughout the park which provide an ideal environment for interesting water creatures as well as a variety of colorful birds.  The ponds are all connected through a series of paths and bridges. The ponds are surrounded by a variety of gardens, each with its own unique landscaping theme including a great lotus garden, a high recommended must see.  The lotus garden is located north of the circular ponds yet connected through the walkways.
The park complex offers a lot to do for anyone with a lust for the outdoors after living and working in the metropolitan area of Bangkok.
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Exploring Bangkok's City Parks

1/28/2016

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The metropolitan area of Bangkok has many city parks for everyone to enjoy the fresh air and get exercise. Here are nine that I have visited and have documented with photos, there are others, but these are the biggest and most scenic. There is a Google Map showing the locations of each of these parks at the end of this post.

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Lumpini Park - Bangkok's Garden Oasis

Lumpini Park in located deep in the center of Metropolitan Bangkok, between Silom and Sathorn Roads and off of Rama IV Road.  The park has several large lakes which cool the hot city air and provide a nice living area for many interesting creatures.  Read More...

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Benjakiti Park in Bangkok

Benjakitti Park is nestled in the middle of downtown Bangkok and is surrounding by amazing skyline of high-rises.  This park is also known as Queen Sirikit Park because it is located next to the Queen Sirikit Convention Center. Read More...

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Wachira Benjathat, Chatuchak and Queen Sirikit Park Complex ​

Wachira Benjathat, Chatuchak and Queen Sirikit Park Complex is a vast area of park land, beautifully maintained, and a great area to enjoy Thailand's nature right in the middle of downtown Bangkok. Read More...

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Romaneenart Park in Downtown ​

Romaneenart Park is a Bangkok City Park located just to the west of Wat Suthat in the oldtown area of Downtown Bangkok.  The park is unique in that it is also the home of the old Bangkok City Jail which has been renovated into a corrections museum. Read More...

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Jungle Park of Sri Nakhon Khuean Khan

Sri Nakhon Khuean Khan Park is a jungle park just outside Bangkok. In fact, the park is just opposite Bangkok's major industrial area along the Chao Phraya River but when you are in the park you feel like you are deep into heavy tropical jungle. Read More...

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Rama 9 Bridge Park​

Rama 9 Bridge Park is located at the base of Rama 9 Bridge, on the southern side of the Chao Phraya River, which is the Bangkok side of the river. Read More...

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Dusit Zoo - Wildlife of the World in Downtown Bangkok

The Dusit Zoo is located  in Bangkok's Dusit District next to the Parliament House and Wat Ben. The zoo was originally built by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) as his private garden called "Khao Din Park" adjacent to the royal palace. Read More...

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Rama IX Botanical Gardens

A day trip to the Rama IX Botanical Gardens is a great way to spend the day in Bangkok in an out-of-the-way scenic area, little frequented by foreigners. The gardens are located to the east of Bangkok center city, costing about 100 baht for the taxi ride. Read More...

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Rama 8 Bridge

The Rama 8 Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge crossing the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand at the upper reaches of Bangkok’s main area frequented by tourists. In fact, the bridge is used as the turning point for the large tourist dining boats as they tour the Chao Praya River for dinner time. Read More...

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​Bangkok's Democracy Monument

1/28/2016

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​Bangkok's Democracy Monument is one of the most well recognized city icons and is located at the traffic circle on Ratchadamnoen Klang Road within the oldtown area of Bangkok, about halfway between the grand palace area and Golden Mount.  The monument was commissioned in 1939 to commemorate the 1932 Siamese coup d'état (the Siamese Revolution of 1932) which led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy.  The wings of the monument are 24 meters high, and the base of the monument is also 24 meters.  This design is to highlight the date of the 1932 Coup taking place on June 24th. 
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Romaneenart Park in Downtown Bangkok 

1/21/2016

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Romaneenart Park is a Bangkok City Park located just to the west of Wat Suthat in the oldtown area of Downtown Bangkok.  The park is unique in that it is also the home of the old Bangkok City Jail which has been renovated into a corrections museum.  The buildings of the museum are located on the eastern side of the park.  Romaneenart Park is a well maintained city park with many garden areas.  Also, due to the parks location it is a great rest stop when you are looking over Bangkok Must Sees, which Wat Suthat is a part.  
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Hidden Skywalk in Downtown Bangkok

1/20/2016

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There is a little known walkway that actually sits above a big portion of downtown Bangkok and links two the biggest and most amazing inner city parks in Bangkok, Lumpini and Benjakitti Parks. The walkway is about 1.5 kilometers long and begins at Lumpini Park on Wireless Road and travels straight east. Close to Benjakatti Park the walkway ends and you have a short walk through a local neighborhood. Take a look at the attached map to see the specific location.  The skywalk never has many people but seems quite safe, in the day time.  

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Lumpini Park

Lumpini Park in located deep in the center of Metropolitan Bangkok, between Silom and Sathorn Roads and off of Rama IV Road. The park has several large lakes which cool the hot city air and provide a nice living area for many interesting creatures.  Read More..

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Benjakiti Park

Benjakitti Park is nestled in the middle of downtown Bangkok and is surrounding by amazing skyline of high-rises.  This park is also known as Queen Sirikit Park because it is located next to the Queen Sirikit Convention Center.   Read More...

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Jungle Park of Sri Nakhon Khuean Khan

1/17/2016

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Sri Nakhon Khuean Khan Park is a jungle park just outside Bangkok. In fact, the park is just opposite Bangkok's major industrial area along the Chao Phraya River but when you are in the park you feel like you are deep into heavy tropical jungle.  When in the park you can experience a large variety of jungle life including large monitor lizards, colorful butterflies and a huge variety of colorful birds. 

​The area outside the park is also mostly lush jungle but the municipality as graciously provided biking trails throughout the area. I will put a Google maps link below to help you get there but the trip should take less than an hour from center city Bangkok. 
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Dusit Zoo - Wildlife of the World in Downtown Bangkok

1/8/2016

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The Dusit Zoo is located  in Bangkok's Dusit District next to the Parliament House and Wat Ben. The zoo was originally built by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) as his private garden called "Khao Din Park" adjacent to the royal palace. After the King Rama Vs death the garden was left unattended for years.  In 1938, King Rama VIII gave the park to Bangkok City Municipality to be open as a public zoo and he also donated deer and a number of other animals from the palace for public exhibition. 

Dusit Zoo is a total area of 188, 800 square meters, and has approximately 2.5 million visitors annually. Dusit Zoo is home to a wide variety of the worlds animals, ranging from monkeys, alligators, kangaroos, and zebras, to penguins, elephants, camels, and giraffes. There are several rides and amusement facilities to entertain children throughout the day.  There is also small boats for rent to pedal around the sizable lake in the center of the zoo.  My favorite exhibit was the large aviary located on Bird Island, where many birds are allowed to roam freely in a large fenced in area that visitors allowed to enter.
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Boat Temple of Wat Yannawa

1/7/2016

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​Wat Yannawa is an older Bangkok Buddhist temple dating back to the Ayutthaya period.  The temple is located along the Chao Phraya River in the Sathon district of Bangkok on Charoen Krung Road, Bangkok, Thailand.  The Temple is located very close to the Saphan Taksin Bridge, making it easily accessible from the Bangkok Commuter Trains.  The temple has a unique boat shaped temple which surrounds the temple's chedi. The boat is the shape of a Chinese junk, which was  disappearing from use at the time of construction, during the reign of  King Rama III.  King Rama III wanted save the Chinese Junk style for posterity. 
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Klong Sansab Boat Taxis

1/5/2016

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​Klong Sansab is a canal that runs through the heart of Bangkok (Klong is the Thai word for canal). The canal is used for a taxi boat service which runs between Bangkok's old town area and Bang Kapi districts in Bangkok. Getting on the boat taxi is not easy for the newby to the water taxis, for they have plastic sheet on the sides to protect the riders from getting splashed by the klong (canal) water and the boat is of course moving in the water. Once on the boat, you often have to stand as it can be quite full. Also, be aware that the entire roof of the boat can lower without warning to allow the boat to fit under the fast approaching bridge. This happens only at high tide.  Getting off the boat seems a bit easier because I had a chance to watch some of the practiced riders disembark on previous stops.  I suggest you do the same. 
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Wat Khun Chan

1/3/2016

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Wat Khun Chan is located across Klong Dan from Wat Paknam in the Chanburi side of Bangkok.  The main features of the Temple are large statues of Buddha along with images from the Ramakien.   Wat Khun Chan is also one of the temples frequented by long tail boat tours of the river and klongs of Bangkok.
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