Bangkok Landmarks Tour

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Trip Description : This tour brings you to the most distinguished temples & important landmark in Bangkok City. Visit Grand Palace including Wat Phra Kaew Temple, Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha), Wat Arun, (Temple of Dawn), Wat Suthat & Giant Swing, The Golden Mount and Marble Temple.

Destination	:	Thailand (Bangkok)
Start City	:	Bangkok
End City	:	Bangkok
Tour Type	:	Private
Duration	:	Full Day
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Tour Grade	:	Easy Moderate Strenuous
Operated by	:	Oriental Escape Ltd.

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08:00 hrs	Meet your English-speaking guide in the hotel’s lobby. Depart from hotel to Rattanakosin Island, the original area of Bangkok when it was first established as the capital over 200 years ago. Visit The Grand Palace has an area of 218,400 sq. meters and is surrounded by walls built in 1782. The length of the four walls is 1,900 meters. Within these walls are situated government offices and the Chapel Royal of the Emerald Buddha besides the royal residences. Wat Phra Kaeo, the most beautiful and important Buddhist temple in Thailand. It is so richly and intricately decorated that, once entering the temple, you will feel as if you are in a real “city of angels” Visit Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha), founded in the 16th century, the oldest and biggest temple with the largest number of pagodas (95 in all) in the city. Wat Pho was the first open university of Thailand which offered courses in several branches of knowledge like literature, astrology, medicine and massage. It’s well known for its huge Reclining Buddha, 46 m. long and 15 m. high. Visit Wat Arun, (Temple of Dawn) the most attractive in this temple is the pagoda Khmer-style. Wat arun was restored during brief Thon Buri period to be Royal Chapel of King Taksin.
12:00 hrs	Lunch at Riverside Restaurant.
13:00 hrs	Afternoon, visit Wat Suthat, is one of the oldest and largest temples in Bangkok, famed for its beautiful roofline, huge golden Buddha, magnificent frescoes and giant swing out front. Then visit The Golden Mount, is part of the Wat Saket temple located just outside the old royal city precincts, next to the Pom Mahakhan fort. The mount has a somewhat unusual history. It was started by King Rama III early in the 19th century, who wanted to build a large chedi on the site to mark the entrance to the city. However, the soft marshy ground could not support such a large structure and it collapsed before it was completed. Later on, Rama IV built a small chedi housing a Buddha relic on top of the mud and brick mound. The chedi was rebuilt again towards the end of the 19th century by his son Rama V when the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, made a gift of a Buddha relic excavated from the town where Buddha was believed to have been born. The concrete cap was built during WW II to keep the artificial hill from eroding further. Continue to visit Wat Benchamabopit or Marble Temple, one of the most modern works of Thai religious architecture. Graceful and tranquil, it is famous for its main chapel built in white Carara Italian marble to house a replica of Thailand’s most beautiful Buddha image, Phra Phutthachinarat.
15:30 hrs	Transfer back to your hotel.