Ranked by how much each place adds to a visit, with realistic visiting times, opening hours and ticket prices.
8 places · showing 1–8
1
The royal complex of 1782 and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha — gilded, mirrored, crowded and unmissable.
2
The temple of the 46-metre gold reclining Buddha, and the home of traditional Thai massage, five minutes' walk from the palace.
3
Bangkok's Chinatown, where the main road turns into a street kitchen every evening — seafood, noodles, dim sum and dessert stalls.
4
The Temple of Dawn on the west bank, its 70-metre prang covered in broken Chinese porcelain, best at sunset from across the river.
5
Over 15,000 stalls across 27 sections — clothing, plants, ceramics, antiques and food — open Saturday and Sunday.
6
The express boats that run up and down the river all day — the cheapest and best way to see Bangkok from the water.
7
Six traditional teak houses assembled by the American who revived Thai silk and then vanished in Malaysia in 1967, now a museum of…
8
A gold chedi on an artificial hill, reached by 344 spiralling steps, with a 360-degree view over the old city.