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   Grand Palace

   The palace of the Chakri dynasty since Rama I, and the summit of Thai royal architecture, mixing gilded chedis with European state rooms. The dress code covering knees and shoulders is enforced strictly, so come dressed for it and come early.

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   Wat Phra Kaew

   The royal chapel inside the Grand Palace, built in 1782 and holding the Emerald Buddha — sixty-six centimetres of jade, whose robes the king changes three times a year with the seasons. The cloister around it carries the Ramakien in a hundred and seventy-eight painted panels.

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   Wat Arun

   A temple whose central prang rises about seventy metres above the river, faced entirely in broken Chinese porcelain that arrived as ballast in trading ships. It is named for the dawn but is photographed at dusk, from the far bank.

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   Wat Pho

   Wat Pho holds a reclining Buddha forty-six metres long and is the home of Thai massage. The massage school in the grounds still teaches and treats, and taking a session there completes the visit.

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   Wat Benchamabophit

   The marble temple, built from 1899 for Rama V in Carrara marble with stained glass in the gables. Its cloister holds fifty-two Buddha images copied from across Asia, a deliberate survey of how the figure has been made.

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   Khaosan Road

   Four hundred metres of street that became the world's backpacker crossroads in the 1980s and has been trading on it since. Pad thai carts, tattoo shops, travel agents and bars stand shoulder to shoulder, and it is loudest after midnight.

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   Bangkok National Museum

   The main branch of Thailand's national museums, founded in 1874 by Rama V in the palace of the deputy king. It is among the largest collections in Southeast Asia and the place to understand Thai art before the temples make sense.

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   Lumphini Park

   Fifty-seven hectares given to the city by Rama VI in the 1920s and named after the Buddha's birthplace. Tai chi fills it at dawn and joggers at dusk; monitor lizards two metres long share the paths without much comment.

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   Democracy Monument

   An art deco monument on the roundabout of Ratchadamnoen Avenue, raised in 1939 to commemorate the end of absolute monarchy. It is the landmark on the walk from Khao San to the Grand Palace, and the rallying point for most of Bangkok's protests since.

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    Erawan Shrine

    A shrine to Brahma put up in 1956 after a run of accidents during construction of a hotel on the corner, and credited ever since with granting wishes. Petitioners hire the resident dancers to perform their thanks, at a road junction under the skytrain.

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   Dusit Palace

   The compound Rama V laid out from 1897 after touring Europe, moving the court out of the cramped Grand Palace. It holds the domed Ananta Samakhom throne hall and Vimanmek, said to be the largest golden teak building in the world.

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   Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen

   A royal temple from the seventeenth century, transformed by a glass stupa finished in 2012 whose ceiling is painted as a green cosmos above a white pagoda. A Buddha figure of some seventy metres was added beside it in 2021.

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   Jim Thompson House

   Six teak houses brought from around the country and reassembled in 1959 by the American who rebuilt the Thai silk trade after the war. He vanished while walking in the Malaysian highlands in 1967; the house and his collection were left as they stood.

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   Sao Chingcha

   A red teak frame twenty-one metres high, first raised in 1784 for a Brahmin rite in which teams swung to snatch a bag of coins from a pole. Deaths ended the ceremony in 1935 and only the swing remains, in front of Wat Suthat.

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   Victory Monument

   An obelisk of 1941 for the Thai soldiers killed in the brief border war with French Indochina. The roundabout around it has since become one of the busiest bus interchanges in the city, which is how most people meet it.

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   Sanam Luang

   The open royal field in front of the Grand Palace, twelve hectares used for royal cremations, the ploughing ceremony that opens the rice season, and kite flying in the hot months.

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   Erawan Museum

   A three-headed elephant of hammered copper forty-three metres high, standing on a pedestal south of Bangkok and finished in 2003. The building beneath and inside it holds a private collection of antiques under a stained-glass dome.

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   Wat Saket

   A golden chedi on an artificial hill raised because Bangkok has no high ground, reached by three hundred and forty-four steps around the outside. In November a red cloth is carried up and wrapped around it for the temple fair.

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   Wat Bowonniwet Vihara

   A temple founded in the 1820s that became the centre of the reformist Thammayut order, and where Thai kings have traditionally ordained as monks — Rama IX among them, in 1956.

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    Chitralada Royal Villa

    The residence within the Dusit Palace grounds where Rama IX lived from 1957 until his death. Its gardens were given over to his agricultural experiments — rice, dairy cattle and fish ponds — whose results were distributed to farmers.

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