Old World Bangkok - A walk through history

[PeteC]

30 plus photos at link, and brief stories.

Across the Chao Phraya River from Chinatown are old neighbourhoods steeped in history. Over a hundred years ago, one of them was the home and playground of a goldsmith's daughter who decades later become the mother of two beloved monarchs. But the late Princess Srinagarindra was not the only historical figure who once called this area home.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/social ... gh-history

[handdrummer]

Thanks, great photos and history lesson.

[Bamboo Grove]

It's interesting how peaceful it looks in the photos. My experience of Chinatown is quite the opposite: traffic jams and lots of people walking on narrow paths.

[barrys]

It's interesting how peaceful it looks in the photos. My experience of Chinatown is quite the opposite: traffic jams and lots of people walking on narrow paths.

We were there last week and it was exactly as you remember it BG!!

[hin]

by barrys » Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:27 pm

Bamboo Grove wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:04 pm
It's interesting how peaceful it looks in the photos. My experience of Chinatown is quite the opposite: traffic jams and lots of people walking on narrow paths.

We were there last week and it was exactly as you remember it BG!!

The OP's post was not about Chinatown = Old Bangkok "across the river from chinatown" = interesting and worth a look-see

by PeteC » Thu Oct 31, 2019 2:30 pm
30 plus photos at link, and brief stories.

Across the Chao Phraya River from Chinatown......