When you along the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand, there may be it will remember by the atmosphere river in your country. The difference is in the Chao Phraya is not only the merchants who took the boat, but also students, students, employees tie, until the beautiful women who wear miniskirts. The women who wore short skirts to work in Chatrium Bangkok Hotel were located on the banks of Chao Phraya River. Every day he was sailing down the river toward the workplace.

Bangkok River that divides the flow was calm and the boat glided smoothly. Passengers can talk relax, including the other citizens of his Asia. The women with short skirts were not alone, many hotel employees, banks, or other offices that use boats as a mode of transportation, like buses. Through the river will be faster. People exposed to the risk of unnecessary traffic on the road.

Many workers use a boat along the river because it was a lot of office buildings, international hotels, and shopping centers, among others, Marriott, Shangri-La, the Royal Orchid Sheraton, Mandarin Oriental, and the Millennium Hilton Hotel. Shopping centers River City Shopping Complex is also located at approximately river.

Important buildings were lined up on the riverbank. Call it a national museum, theater, campus, including the University of Thammasat and Silpakorn University. Similarly, many famous temples built along the river, for example, Wat Pho, Wat Sawetta Chat, Wat Thong Noppakum, and Wat Arun. In fact, the king’s palace, the Royal Grand Palace, is also standing majestically on the edge of the Chao Phraya River. This is the official palace of the kings of Thailand since the 18th century until today that was built in 1782. When the Thai capital was moved to Bangkok in the early reign of King Rattanakosin year 1782, the river became an important route of transportation. In fact when it was built the canals connecting, that’s why Bangkok is often called the Venice of the East on the Chao Praya River past history of Thailand.

Chao Phraya River, formed by the confluence of two rivers flow, the Ping River and Nan River is tipped in northern Thailand. The meeting took place in the flow of Nakhon Sawan Province. From the point of the meeting, Chao Phraya flows along the 365 kilometers from north to south and empties into the Gulf of Thailand. The river is crossed no less than ten cities, including Bangkok. River with brown water that looks clean from trash. Hyacinth plants appeared at the edge of the river, but did not interfere with air traffic. No one passenger boat seen garbage into rivers, they looked loved river.

Chao Phraya became the object of tourism in Bangkok. Almost all hotels in Bangkok have a fleet of boats that are available to take their guests down the river pleasure. Free too. Do not be surprised if many boats flagged hotel name. Do not be surprised if many of the Pier is also the name of the hotel. Normally, the boat version of the hotel guests only led to a kind of Central Pier or central station for the boats.

To continue the journey, we can choose half-day travel package. This package designed for turistik, as provided Chao Phraya Tourist Boat. By paying 150 baht for adults and 80 baht for children under the age of 9 years, we can follow the river for 6 hours, Half-day package that can be selected from at 09.30 till 15:00 o’clock. For six hours we were taken to several attractions, such as the Royal Grand Palace, fruit and flower market in Ratchawong, Wat Pho and the Temple of the objectives of mandatory for those who pay a visit to Bangkok. Wat Pho, one of the oldest and largest temples in Bangkok, was built in 1782.

Wat Pho also known as Lying Buddha Temple or The Reclining Buddha or Phra Buddhasaiyas in Thai, So called because in this temple there are statues of Buddha in a lying position. Sculptures along the 46 meters and 15 meters this plays gilded on the body in the eye and pearl reigning footprints. In addition to historical objects, we can also find used books to the Khaosan Road area. This area of accommodation backpacker aka jolly travelers from all over the world and a meal in China Town according to one used-book dealers in the area, the backpacker is often sell or barter books. If the jelly and patient enough, we can find novels like Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad or The Interpretation of Dreams from the grandfather psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.

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