A great place to spend the day is Ancient Siam in Samut Prakan. Admission price is 400 Baht which includes a bicycle. You need that as the park is massive. If you don’t have time to visit all of Thailand then this place is the next best thing.Richard Barrow.
A Temple Visit - BKK
A favourite temple visit is to Wat Thammamongkhon located in On Nut (Sukhumvit Soi 101). It is famous for not only having the highest pagoda in Bangkok, but for also housing a real hair relic of Lord Buddha. The pagoda is 94.78 metres high and has 14 storeys. There is a wealth of ancient relics to view and an elevator to take you to the top floor where the sacred hair is kept. The hair was presented to Thailand by the Supreme Patriach of Bangladesh and is held in an urn at the top of the building. The views across Bangkok are incredible and I highly recommend this is on your trip list if you visit the capital.
Within the temple grounds are a number of buildings including a Chinese Buddhist shrine with a beautiful gold ceiling. The temple is a place of study for many young monks and lessons are conducted on a regular basis. Wat Thammamongkhon is a very popular place of meditation and merit making for Thais, yet being set well back from the main road is little known and unspoilt by foreign tourists
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