Krung Thep Maha Nakhon Trip Overview
This walk gives you an introductory look at the historic area surrounding the mouth of Bangkok Noi, one of the Thai capital’s most important waterways.
Starting at the Pinklao Bridge, we’ll walk through the grounds of storied Thammasat University, home to one of Bangkok’s darkest and most violent crackdowns, before crossing the Chao Phraya River on a noisy-yet-charming river ferry.
Get your snack on at the well-known Wang Lang market before walking through the grounds of Siriaj Hospital, where you can check out the (in)famous forensics museum, one of Bangkok’s strangest attractions.
We’ll then check out the Royal Barge Museum before walking through a neighborhood that has character and local charm in spades. We finish off with a visit to a beautiful but seldom-visited Ayutthaya-era temple.
The tour is ready whenever you are and the audio plays automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smartphone’s GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline.
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Duration: 50 minutes
Starts: Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, Thailand
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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This walk gives you an introductory look at the historic area surrounding the mouth of Bangkok Noi, one of the Thai capital’s most important waterways.
Starting at the Pinklao Bridge, we’ll walk through the grounds of storied Thammasat University, home to one of Bangkok’s darkest and most violent crackdowns, before crossing the Chao Phraya River on a noisy-yet-charming river ferry.
Get your snack on at the well-known Wang Lang market before walking through the grounds of Siriaj Hospital, where you can check out the (in)famous forensics museum, one of Bangkok’s strangest attractions.
We’ll then check out the Royal Barge Museum before walking through a neighborhood that has character and local charm in spades. We finish off with a visit to a beautiful but seldom-visited Ayutthaya-era temple.
The tour is ready whenever you are and the audio plays automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smartphone’s GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline.
Itinerary
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Pass By: Wang Lang Market, Soi Wang Lang Siriraj, Bangkok Noi, Bangkok 10700 Thailand
Wang Lang Market is an every day affair in Bangkok Noi near by Siriraj Hospital and Chao Phraya waterway on Bangkok’s Thonburi side. It is brimming with stalls, shops and shophouses. There are a variety of products and services available such as beauty salons, clothing shops, cafés, bakeries, sushi shops and restaurants.
Pass By: Siriraj Medical Museum, 2, Wang Lang Road Siriraj, Bangkok Noi, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok 10700 Thailand
The Siriraj Medical Museum, or the Museum of Death, is a medical museum comprising of five small exhibition halls. These are the Ellis Pathological Museum, the Congdon Anatomical Museum, the Sood Sangvichien Prehistoric Museum and Laboratory, the Parasitology Museum and the Songkran Niyomsane Forensic Medicine Museum.
Pass By: Royal Barges National Museum, 80/1 Arun Amarin Road Bangkok Noi, Bangkok 10700 Thailand
The National Museum of Royal Barges only gets a trickle of the crowds that head out to see some of Bangkok’s other attractions.
The barge procession itself is a ceremony that’s both religious and royal, that goes back over 700 years. The boats in this museum lead a procession of 52 other boats manned by thousands of oarsmen and carrying the King along a 4km stretch of river.
