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A guidebook to Old Bangkok
The author's skilful curation distils over 200 years of the Old Town's history into ... the founding of Bangkok as the capital by King Rama I, Ploy takes readers to the Temple of Dawn -- a ...
We traveled through a quiet suburban neighborhood, stopping at the Paknam Phasi Charoen Temple ... new things old or old things new, with a logic that has never made sense to me. Bangkok, with ...
This vast temple is one of Bangkok’s oldest temples and a home to dozens of sacred monuments and relics. The most famous relic is the gigantic 150-foot-long reclining Buddha statue which was ...
The 800-year-old Ta Moan Shiva temple, a significant Hindu shrine, is at the heart of a territorial dispute between Thailand ...
Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist temple complex ... a status given to old buildings, paintings and ...