Top travel Bangkok destinations
Bangkok enjoys the fame and grace of being one of the popular Thailand tourist spots. The most populous and wealthiest Thailand city is potpourri of all sorts of tourist attractions. Whether it is hotels, shopping, temples or sightseeing, Bangkok is surely the place to be for an ideal vacation time.
The city is packed with amazing Buddhist temples, classical dance indulgences, shopping centers and splendid palaces that are subjects of fascination and beauty. There are indeed a number of top travel Bangkok destinations to see and experience.
You can feel and observe the glory of kingdom at Bangkok National Museum which is the most comprehensive and largest museums in whole Southeast Asia. Just at the stone throw distance from Grand Palace, this museum houses amazing line of artifacts from different parts of the nation. The whole complex includes several beautiful and old buildings and for the art aficionados, the National Gallery is famous for contemporary as well as traditional works by the popular Thai artists.
Then, the Dusit Zoo is another top travel Bangkok destination and a must visit one. It is the first public park and zoo in Thailand that was opened to the public in the year 1938. This zoo was basically the part of the Dusit Royal Garden named Kao Din Wana that is situated in the very heart of Bangkok city.
Bangkok is indeed the city full of temples and it is further resplendent with the orange tiered roofs, golden spires, calm Buddha images as well as saffron robed monks all around.
Even the floating markets in Bangkok are colorful and vibrant reminder of days when the framers brought produce for selling by boat.
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.
