Wat Arun
Wat Arun stands on the Thonburi bank of the Chao Phraya, directly across the water from the old royal city, and it is the one Bangkok monument built to be read from the river.
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Wat Arun stands on the Thonburi bank of the Chao Phraya, directly across the water from the old royal city, and it is the one Bangkok monument built to be read from the river.
Phra Racha Wang Derm — the Old Palace, or Thonburi Palace — is the palace King Taksin had built in 1767 on the west bank of the Chao Phraya at the mouth of Bangkok Yai canal, and it was his…
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