Visiting Bangkok Thailand beaches
While Bangkok does not typically offer you any beach facility, but the good part is that there are quite a few beaches within the proximity of Bangkok, i.e., in just a near distance. These beaches are accessible with car, bus or train. All the beaches are not equally good, but there are quite a few of them which can be explored. These are explained here:
Hua Hin
Hua Hin is one the best and the prettiest beaches near Bangkok. This beach is also among favorites, not just for the tourists, but also for the residents who consider it as an excellent place for weekend picnics. Despite being so popular, this is one of the cleanest and serene beaches.
Cha Am
This beach is situated 200 km South of Bangkok. This is a perfect beach cm resort area where tourists enjoy and experience the “Thai Royalty.” The best part of this beach is its 100% bar-absence, which ensures that this place remains clean and quiet.
Pattaya Beach
Another popular tourist destination is Pattaya Beach of Thailand. Pattaya beach draws tourist becase of its lively and energetic features and facilities. It is absolutely fun and exciting to be at this place, but it is definitely not the one for you if you wish to look for serene beach.
Koh Samet Beaches
Koh Samet is not exactly the beach, but an island close to Eastern Thailand. There are various beaches situated on this island and certain beaches on this island like Diamond beach and Hat Sai Kaew are the most beautiful.
There are other beautiful beaches too and this makes visiting Bangkok Thailand beaches absolutely worthwhile and amazing.
Bangkok Golden Temple
The heart as well as the soul of Bangkok rests in the temples of this capital city. Your visit to Bangkok will remain absolutely incomplete without paying a visit to the Bangkok Golden Temple, where you will see a record-making and the largest sitting Buddha of the world, all gold! This Buddha weighs 5 and half tons and is 5 meters in height. Bangkok Golden Temple is also popularly known as Wat Traimit Withthayaram.
The story behind this temple goes like this. The artisans in the past had created the statue of sitting Buddha in gold and in order to prevent it from being stolen, it was covered with plaster and stucco. As the story goes, this statue was later discovered accidently when it was dropped while being moved. While moving the plaster was shed away, revealing the beautiful gold underneath. These plaster pieces have still been kept as display.
This Golden statue of sitting Buddha is being constructed in Sukhothai Dynasty Style. It is believed that this statue has been cast in India and was later moved and assembled at this site of Bangkok Golden Temple.
As far as the dress code is concerned, you can say there is an “ideal code.” Removing shoes is mandatory and is possible; rather preferably, girls should avoid wearing miniskirts or meager tops at this temple. The most idealistic or the best time to visit this temple is early morning where you will hardly find a lot of crowd and the weather will be just great!
This temple is situated at Chinatown Yaowarat Road, very close to the railway station. This Buddha statue is considered one of the most popular and also the most beautiful one in the whole world.
