The express boats that run up and down the river all day — the cheapest and best way to see Bangkok from the water.
The orange-flag local boat costs about 16 baht for any distance. The blue tourist boat charges several times more for the same river. Piers are numbered — Tha Tien for Wat Pho, Tha Chang for the palace.
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The Temple of Dawn on the west bank, its 70-metre prang covered in broken Chinese porcelain, best at…
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The temple of the 46-metre gold reclining Buddha, and the home of traditional Thai massage, five…
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The royal complex of 1782 and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha — gilded, mirrored, crowded and…
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Bangkok's Chinatown, where the main road turns into a street kitchen every evening — seafood, noodles…