Travel

Bangkok
Thailand’s capital is one of Asia’s jewels, home to efficient mass transit, bustling markets, high-end stores, and possibly the best accommodations on the continent. Even with crowded sidewalks and horrific traffic, the City of Angels is spectacular, especially among the majestic wats that flank the Grand Palace.

Bangkok Transportation
Transport in Thailand is extremely well-organized and makes the whole stay in Thailand comfortable and easy. The air, rail, bus, road and water transport is very competent. The different islands and cities are connected to each other and the tourists can easily move about the country.

Museums of Bangkok
National Museum Silpa Bhirasri Memorial
This museum was founded as a memorial to Prof. Silpa Bhirasri, who is known as the “father of modern art in Thailand” The building is on the left of the Fine Arts Dept., in the same area as Silpakorn University, where he lived, worked, and taught.
Royal Barges National Museum
In the past, Thailand was an agricultural society with settled communities growing beside the waterways. The river was the m important avenue of communication.
National Gallery
With increasing trade with the West resulting in a shortage of traditional bullet coins, King Rama IV ordered the purchase of machinery to mint coins which was installed at the Royal Mint in the Grand Palace.
Jim Thompson House
Jim Thompson House is a house belong to the late James H.W. Thomson who came to Thailand as an officer in the US forces during World War II. When he war ended, he decided to settle in the Kingdom.
National Museum Bangkok
Originally the Personal Museum of King Rama IV with a collection of antiques and Royal Gifts, King Rama V subsequently opened the Sahathai Samakom Pavilion (Concordia Tower) in the Grand Palace grounds as a Public Museum.

Bangkok Restaurants
There are plenty of restaurants in Bangkok, so you’re never far from some form of food outlet. Everywhere you look there are noodle stands, fruit stalls, curry shops, road-side barbecues and even carts selling fried insects; and then there are countless superb restaurants serving international as well as Thai and other Asian cuisine to suit most tastes and budgets. The range of options is quite staggering and very few visitors or expats can claim to have tried everything Bangkok restaurants have to offer.During your time in Bangkok it’s certainly worth making the effort to seek out a few quality restaurants, and there are many throughout the city. Most of the top hotels will have at least one or two restaurants and these can be excellent, although often pricey – especially the ones offering non-Thai cuisine. But if you take to the streets some very good and more affordable Bangkok restaurants present themselves – there are many Thai restaurants but you can also find Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese restaurants to satisfy Asian tastes; and for western food Bangkok is well served with its Italian, French, German, Scandinavian and British eateries.
If you’re staying in a guesthouse it’s even more important to get out and experience Bangkok restaurants as guesthouse food can be bland and after a while it all starts to taste the same.

Shopping in  Bangkok
Bangkok is a shopper’s paradise, and part of your trip to Thailand should certainly include a day or two for browsing the shops and malls of the city. The range is impressive and the prices unbeatable.In Bangkok’s incredibly urbanised cityscape there are shopping malls and department stores everywhere. When out shopping in Bangkok you can discover ultra-chic and trendy malls such as the Emporium or Central Chitlom where the store guides read like a who’s-who of designer labels. Then there are the all-encompassing mega-malls such as MBK or Seacon Square in which seemingly every product you can think of is available. You can also break up your shopping trip by catching a movie in the multiplex cinema, go ten pin bowling, take a Thai massage or dine at any one of the many excellent on-site restaurants.
Technology junkies can get their shopping fix at one of Bangkok’s IT malls, such as the bustling and lively Pantip Plaza on Petchaburi Road, or the slightly calmer and more modern Fortune Town on Rachadapisek (‘Rachada’) Road.
But the shopping in Bangkok doesn’t stop there: no trip to Bangkok is complete without a visit to the colossal Chatuchak weekend market, in which you can pick up your ideal holiday souvenirs at knock down prices. And there are countless other markets and gatherings of street stalls all over Bangkok, meaning that bargain hunters will be spoilt for choice when shopping in Bangkok.