The principal vertical landmark of the ASIATIQUE The Riverfront complex on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River in southern Bangkok, ASIATIQUE SKY is a sixty-metre-tall observation Ferris wheel that provides one of the principal panoramic viewing experiences over the southern Bangkok cityscape. The wheel was opened in December 2012 as one of the original anchor attractions of the wider ASIATIQUE riverfront night market and shopping complex. The wheel was originally installed under the bran.....

Opened in April 2012 on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River in the Bang Kho Laem district of southern Bangkok, ASIATIQUE The Riverfront is one of the largest open-air shopping and entertainment complexes in Thailand and combines a traditional Thai night market with substantial dining, entertainment and retail components. The complex occupies the converted former waterfront site of the East Asiatic Company, a major Danish trading firm whose Bangkok warehouses had occupied the site continuou.....

Set on the upper floors of the Baiyoke Tower II skyscraper in the Pratunam district of central Bangkok, the Baiyoke Sky Hotel is the highest hotel in Thailand and one of the highest large hotels anywhere in South-East Asia. The hotel occupies floors twenty-two through to seventy-four of the eighty-eight-floor tower, providing six hundred and seventy-three guest rooms across more than fifty individual room floors. The hotel opened in 1998 as the principal occupant of the new Baiyoke II tower. Th.....

Rising three hundred and four metres above the Pratunam district of central Bangkok, the Baiyoke Tower II is one of the most prominent individual landmarks of the modern Thai capital and was the tallest building in Thailand continuously from its completion in 1997 through to the completion of the King Power MahaNakhon in 2016. The eighty-eight-floor building combines a high-volume international hotel on the upper floors with a substantial commercial and retail base at the lower levels, alongside.....

A curved white building at the busy Pathumwan junction marks the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, one of the Thai capital's main public spaces for contemporary art. It stands among the shopping malls of the Siam district, directly linked to the elevated railway and to the neighbouring MBK Center. The idea for a public art centre was approved by the city governor in 1995, but the project stalled in 2001 when a new administration proposed turning the site into commercial retail space instead. Sust.....

Watching Muay Thai, Thailand's national sport and martial art, is one of the most popular evening activities for visitors to Bangkok. Fight nights are held across the city, and the experience combines elite combat sport with longstanding ritual and music. Muay Thai is known as the art of eight limbs, because fighters strike using fists, elbows, knees and shins. Each bout is preceded by the wai khru ram muay, a dance in which fighters pay respect to their teachers, performed to a live ensemble w.....

Set in a restored colonial-era mansion on South Sathorn Road in the central commercial district of Bangkok, the Blue Elephant Bangkok is one of the most distinguished high-end Thai restaurants in the capital and the principal flagship of an international Thai restaurant network with branches in London, Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Lyon, Malta, Beirut and Phuket. The Bangkok flagship opened in 2002 in the converted Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce building, one of the few surviving early twentiet.....

The longest-running transgender cabaret venue in central Bangkok, the Calypso Cabaret moved into its current purpose-built theatre at the ASIATIQUE The Riverfront complex in February 2013 after relocating from its previous twenty-five-year home at the Asia Hotel on Phayathai Road. The Calypso traces its history back to 1988 and is the principal flagship of the Thai kathoey cabaret tradition, with substantially the longest continuous performance history of any of the surviving transgender cabaret.....

Occupying a substantial city block at the corner of Ratchadamri Road and Rama I Road in the central Pathum Wan district of central Bangkok, Central World is one of the largest shopping malls in Thailand and one of the principal commercial landmarks of the central city. The complex covers around five hundred and fifty thousand square metres of gross floor area across eight retail levels and contains around five hundred individual shops, around one hundred restaurants, two large department stores .....

Set in a small open-air shrine compound at the corner of Ratchadamri and Ploenchit Roads in the central Pathum Wan district of central Bangkok, the Erawan Shrine is one of the most heavily visited religious sites in the central Thai capital and provides the principal Bangkok shrine to the Hindu god Brahma. The shrine has been continuously active since its dedication on 9 November 1956 and is currently visited by around fifteen thousand individual worshippers and tourists every day. The shrine w.....