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54 ❯❯ The Top 10 of Everything

Children’s Attractions

Roller coaster soaring over Dream World amusement park
Dream World
1 SEA LIFE Bangkok Ocean World
MAP T2 • 62 Moo 1,
is divided into zones such as
Rangsit-Nakornnayok Road, Ocean Tunnel and Rocky Shore.
Thanyaburi, Pathumthani • 02 577 Attractions include the chance
8666 • Open 10am–5pm Mon–Fri, to dive with sharks. There are
10am–7pm Sat & Sun • Adm also a number of pen guin and
• www.dreamworld.co.th shark feeding sessions (see p88).
Featuring a hanging roller coaster,
Kidzania
a sightseeing train, water rides and 4
various other amusements, the MAP P2 • Floor 5, Siam
Dream World theme park comprises Paragon, Rama I Road • 02 683
different areas, including Snow 1888 • Open 10am–5pm Mon–Fri,
Town, Fairytale Land and Seven 10:30am–8:30pm Sat, Sun & hols
Wonders of the World. • Adm • www.kzbangkok.
kidzania.com
Snake Farm
2 Kids can play at being doctors
and nurses, Japanese chefs, crime
Founded as the
Pasteur Institute in scene investigators, and even fortune
1923, the Queen tellers at this imaginative and varied
Saovabha Memorial Institute, activity centre in Bangkok.
better known as the Snake
Funarium
Farm, is now run by the Red 5
Cross. Shows on snake MAP T6 • Soi 26,
handling and feeding are held Sukhumvit Road, near
every day (2:30pm Mon–Fri, Rama IV Road • 02 665 6555
11am Sat & Sun), and venom­ • Open 9am–6pm Mon–
milking sessions of cobras Thu, 9am–7pm
and pit vipers take place SEA LIFE Bangkok Fri–Sun • Adm
on weekdays at 11am. Ocean World penguin • www.funarium.co.th
Brave visitors can also get Children 13 years and
a souvenir photo with a snake under can partake in a number of
around their neck (see p85). activities at this huge indoor play­
ground near the center of town.
SEA LIFE Bangkok
3 It has an arts and crafts room,
Ocean World
cooking classes, a restaurant, and
One of the largest aquariums it hosts story telling and magic show
in Southeast Asia, the superb events on weekends.
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Date 24th June 2015
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