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    Berlitz Pocket Guide Bangkok (Travel Guide eBook)
    Berlitz Pocket Guide Bangkok (Travel Guide eBook)
    Berlitz Pocket Guide Bangkok (Travel Guide eBook)
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    Berlitz Pocket Guide Bangkok (Travel Guide eBook)

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    Cosmopolitan Bangkok blends evocative street markets with glitzy modern malls, Buddhist philosophy with animism, and traditional reserve with lashings of fun. Berlitz Pocket Guide Bangkok is a concise, full-colour travel guide to this vast, frenetic city; small but packed with useful facts, inspiring photography and handy tips to help you uncover the best sights and experiences.

    Inside Bangkok Pocket Guide:
    Where To Go details all the key sights in the city, while handy maps on the cover flaps help you find your way around, and are cross-referenced to the text.

    Top 10 Attractions gives a run-down of the best sights to take in on your trip.

    Perfect Day provides an itinerary of the city.

    What To Do is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, including shopping in the city's markets, finding the best nightlife and catching a Muay Thai match.

    Essential information on Bangkok's culture, including a brief history of the city.

    Eating Out covers the country's best cuisine.

    Curated listings of the best hotels and restaurants.

    A-Z of all the practical information you'll need.

    About Berlitz: Berlitz draws on years of travel and language expertise to bring you a wide range of travel and language products, including travel guides, maps, phrase books, language-learning courses, dictionaries and kids' language products.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInsight Guides
    Release dateFeb 1, 2018
    ISBN9781785730931
    Berlitz Pocket Guide Bangkok (Travel Guide eBook)

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      Berlitz Pocket Guide Bangkok (Travel Guide eBook) - Berlitz Publishing

      How To Use This E-Book

      Getting Around the e-Book

      This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Bangkok, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.

      The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Bangkok, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.

      In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

      Maps

      All key attractions and sights in Bangkok are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

      Images

      You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Bangkok. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.

      About Berlitz Pocket Guides

      The Berlitz story began in 1877 when Maximilian Berlitz devised his revolutionary method of language learning. More than 130 years later, Berlitz is a household name, famed not only for language schools but also as a provider of best-selling language and travel guides.

      Our wide-ranging travel products – printed travel guides and phrase books, as well as apps and ebooks – offer all the information you need for a perfect trip, and are regularly updated by our team of expert local authors. Their practical emphasis means they are perfect for use on the ground. Wherever you’re going – whether it’s on a short break, the trip of a lifetime, a cruise or a business trip – we offer the ideal guide for your needs.

      Our Berlitz Pocket Guides are the perfect choice if you need reliable, concise information in a handy format. We provide amazing value for money – these guides may be small, but they are packed with information. No wonder they have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide.

      © 2018 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

      Table of Contents

      Bangkok’s Top 10 Attractions

      Top Attraction #1

      Top Attraction #2

      Top Attraction #3

      Top Attraction #4

      Top Attraction #5

      Top Attraction #6

      Top Attraction #7

      Top Attraction #8

      Top Attraction #9

      Top Attraction #10

      A Perfect Day in Bangkok

      Introduction

      A distinctive capital

      Population

      Religion

      Something for everyone

      A Brief History

      Bangkok’s predecessor

      Founding a new capital

      Revolution, coup and counter-coup

      Democratic struggles

      Historical landmarks

      Where To Go

      Ko Rattanakosin (Royal Island)

      Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew 1 [map]

      Wat Pho (Wat Phra Chetuphon)

      Museum of Siam

      Lak Meuang and Sanam Luang

      Wat Mahathat

      National Museum

      Chinatown and around

      Pahurat

      Eastern Chinatown and Hualamphong

      Thonburi

      Thonburi canals

      Royal Barges National Museum

      Forensic Medicine Museum

      Wat Arun

      Santa Cruz Church

      Old Bangkok

      Wat Suthat

      Monk’s Bowl Village (Ban Baht)

      The Golden Mount

      Democracy Monument

      October 14 Memorial and Museum

      Khao San Road

      Phra Sumen Fort and Santichaiprakan Park

      Dusit

      Dusit Park

      Dusit Zoo

      Central Bangkok

      Jim Thompson’s House

      Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

      Siam Square

      Wang Suan Pakkard

      Thap Thim Shrine

      Erawan Shrine

      Lumphini Park

      Snake Farm

      Silom and Bangrak

      Sri Mariamman Temple (Maha Uma Devi Temple)

      Kukrit Pramoj Heritage House

      Patpong

      Excursions from Bangkok

      Ko Kret

      Ancient City (Muang Boran)

      Ayutthaya

      Phra Pathom Chedi

      Floating markets

      Kanchanaburi

      Ko Samet

      What To Do

      Shopping

      Markets

      Shopping centres and department stores

      Books

      Antiques

      Entertainment

      Theatre

      Bars

      Dance clubs

      Live music

      Cinema

      Sport

      Muay Thai

      Takraw

      Other sports

      Children’s Bangkok

      Calendar of events

      Eating Out

      Where to eat

      What to eat

      Thai cooking

      International cuisines

      What to drink

      Non-alcoholic beverages

      Alcoholic drinks

      Reading the Menu

      To help you order…

      …and read the menu

      Restaurants

      Ko Rattanakosin

      Chinatown and around

      Thonburi

      Old Bangkok and Dusit

      Central Bangkok

      Silom and Bangrak

      Sukhumvit Road

      A–Z Travel Tips

      A

      Accommodation (see also Hotels, click here)

      Airports

      B

      Bargaining

      Budgeting for your trip

      C

      Car hire (rental)

      Climate

      Clothing

      Crime and safety (see also Emergencies)

      D

      Disabled travellers

      E

      Electricity

      Embassies and consulates

      Emergencies (see also Crime and safety)

      G

      Gay and lesbian travellers

      Getting there (see also Airports)

      Guides and tours

      H

      Health and medical care

      L

      Language

      M

      Maps

      Media

      Money

      O

      Opening times

      P

      Police (see also Emergencies and Crime and safety)

      Post offices

      Public holidays

      R

      Religon

      T

      Telephones

      Time zones

      Tipping

      Toilets

      Tourist information

      Transport

      V

      Visa and entry requirements

      W

      Websites and internet access

      Y

      Youth hostels

      Recommended Hotels

      Ko Rattakosin

      Chinatown and around

      Thonburi

      Old Bangkok and Dusit

      Central Bangkok

      Silom and Bangrak

      Sukhumvit Road

      Bangkok’s Top 10 Attractions

      Top Attraction #1

      Getty Images

      Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew

      These buildings represent some of the city’s oldest and most beautiful architecture. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #2

      iStock

      Wat Traimit

      The temple houses a 5.5-tonne solid gold Buddha. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #3

      Shutterstock

      Royal Barges National Museum

      Offers a glimpse into a water-borne world of ceremony and pageantry. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #4

      Peter Stuckings/Apa Publications

      Khao San Road

      Asia’s biggest and most popular backpacking hub. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #5

      123RF

      Vimanmek Mansion

      Built from teak, it is the city’s most splendid example of Victorian-meets-Thai architecture. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #6

      Peter Stuckings/Apa Publications

      Wat Pho

      Bangkok’s oldest temple contains the longest reclining Buddha in Thailand. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #7

      Hans Fonk

      Jim Thompson’s House

      Visit the famous expat’s house, full of beautiful art and antiques. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #8

      Peter Stuckings/Apa Publications

      Erawan Shrine

      Traditional spirit worship and Hinduism combine here. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #9

      iStock

      Thonburi

      Colourful longtail boats ply its network of canals, offering another perspective on the city. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #10

      Peter Stuckings/Apa Publications

      National Museum

      Every period of Thai history is displayed and documented in its stately buildings. For more information, click here.

      A Perfect Day in Bangkok

      8.30am

      Breakfast

      Get an early start and a river breeze to beat the heat with breakfast on the terrace of the Mandarin Oriental. It is rich with history, as Bangkok’s most famous hotel, and the boats lend a relaxing backdrop.

      9.30am

      Chinatown

      A 15-minute taxi ride and you’re at Wat Mangkon Kamalawat, Chinatown’s biggest and most important temple. Later, wander down the evocative Soi Itsaranupap, a historic lane packed with Chinese culture, traditional streetfood and a 200 year-old market.

      11.30am

      Art shows

      Next take a taxi to the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, which has temporary exhibitions of local and international works displayed over several floors. The gallery often features Thailand’s best established and rising stars.

      12.30pm

      Siam Square

      The Siam Square zone marks the beginning of Bangkok’s downtown shopping malls, so there’s lots of choice when it comes to lunch. A good option is the ground floor food court at Siam Paragon mall for a range of local streetfood, reasonably priced and in air-conditioned comfort.

      1.30pm

      Ocean World

      In the basement of Siam Paragon is Ocean World, which has tanks containing some 30,000 marine species. You can take a glass-bottomed boat ride, go diving with sharks and marvel at South African penguins.

      2.30pm

      Shopping

      Paragon is just one of many malls along this stretch, with a phenomenal choice, whether you want high fashion, smartphones, spices, or copies of master artworks executed by painters in MBK. You can use skywalks between several of the malls, so you avoid the cluttered pavements below.

      4.00pm

      Time for pampering

      After a long day, there’s nothing better than a relaxing massage, and Bangkok is full of pampering options. The nearby Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel has a luxury rooftop day spa, while Siam Square has many streetside parlours to ease those aching limbs.

      5.30pm

      Sunset cocktails

      A taxi to the bottom of Silom Road brings you to Sirocco, a 300-metre-high rooftop restaurant and bar that provides a stunning view for sunset cocktails. Either linger here for dinner or take a five-minute walk around the corner for a choice of Thai at Harmonique.

      9.00pm

      Nightlife

      Still at the bottom end of Silom Road, Maggie Choo’s is one of the city’s classiest and most imaginative nightlife spots. It’s based on a vision

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