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88 ❯❯ Bangkok Area by Area

The Best of the Rest

Pratunam Market
Chulalongkorn
1 7
University
MAP Q1 • Corner of Phetburi
and Ratchaprarop roads • Open MAP P3 • 254 Phaya Thai Road
9am–midnight daily • 02 215 0871 • www.chula.ac.th
Famous for its inexpensive textiles The campus of Thailand’s oldest
and ready-made clothes, and most respected university
Pratunam Market is a great mixes Western and Thai
place to witness the city’s archi tectural styles.
chaotic street life. SEA LIFE
8
Maha Uma
Bangkok
2 Ocean World
Devi Temple
MAP N5 • Corner of MAP P2 • Basement,
Silom Road and Soi Pan Siam Paragon, Rama I
• 02 238 4007 • Open Road • 02 687 2000
6am–8pm daily • Open 10am–9pm
Also known as Sri daily • Adm • www.
Mariamman, this sealifebangkok.com
temple features a This massive aquarium,
panoply of brightly home to over 400 species
painted Hindu deities of marine life, features
above the entrance and Statue at Maha an underwater tunnel
around the interior walls. Uma Devi (see p55).
Museum of
Baiyoke Tower II
3 9
Counterfeit Goods
MAP Q1 • 222 Ratchaprarop
Road • 02 656 3000 • Open MAP T6 • Tilleke & Gibbins, Supalai
10am–11pm daily • Adm Grand Tower, Rama III Road • 02 056
Bangkok’s second-tallest building at 5546 • Open by appointment
1,000 ft (304 m), this tower has an Quirky displays of over 4,000 fake
open-air, revolving roof deck that items, including cloth ing and drugs.
offers superb panoramas of the city. Mahanakhon Building
Royal Bangkok Sports
4 0
MAP P5 • Narathiwat
Club
Ratchanakharin Road
MAP Q3 • Henri Dunant Road Currently Thailand’s tallest building,
• 02 652 5000 • www.rbsc.org with a rooftop bar and observatory
This attractive horse-racing club has planned for late 2017.
a golf course set inside the track.
Mahanakhon Building
Neilson Hays Library
5
MAP N5 • 195 Suriwong Road
• 02 233 1731 • Open 9:30am–5pm
Tue–Sun
Located in a colonial building, this
haven for bookworms has over
20,000 vol umes on its shelves.
Chao Mae Tubtim Shrine
6
MAP R2 • Wireless Road
This eye-catching shrine is encircled
by phallic offerings from devotees
wishing for fertility or prosperity.
Eyewitness Travel – Top 10 series LAYERS PRINTED:
Two-column, 8.5pt grid “UK” LAYER
(SourceReport v.1.9)
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Date 24th June 2015
Size 100mm x 191mm