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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 17:38:00

Standing twenty-one and a half metres tall on the small Phra Lan square in front of Wat Suthat in the historic Phra Nakhon district of central Bangkok, the Giant Swing is one of the most distinctive surviving traditional Thai religious monuments anywhere in the central capital. The structure consists of two great teak posts connected by an elaborately carved horizontal lintel and originally supported a swinging platform used during the annual Triyampavai-Tripavai festival. The original Giant Sw...