Queen Sirikit Park

What it is

Queen Sirikit Park is a botanical garden of 0.22 square kilometres in Chatuchak district, northern Bangkok, established in 1992 and opened on 19 December 1996 to mark Queen Sirikit's sixtieth birthday. It is a plant collection first and a public park second. More than 2,000 species grow here, among them over 200 kinds of waterlily, together with banana cultivars, palms, hibiscus, lotus, coconut cultivars, bamboos and rare Thai endemics. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration took over its management on 1 May 1995, and the Foundation of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit continues to support its upkeep. The planting plan follows the outline of Thailand's map, so a walk across Queen Sirikit Park doubles as a walk from the north of the country to the south. The garden forms the western part of the Chatuchak green belt and sits beside Chatuchak Park, a short distance from the weekend market.

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What's inside

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration lists nine named areas inside Queen Sirikit Park. The Royal Garden of 76 Provinces is a 4.8-rai miniature of Thailand that plants each province's royal tree in its true position and threads imaginary roads between the regions, among them Phahonyothin, Mittraphap and Sukhumvit. The pond is cut into the winding shape of the letters that stand for the Queen's royal title, its edge picked out by the yellow of the royal trumpet tree and the purple-pink of the Nil flowers. Lotus Square gathers Thai and foreign lotus in a large pond ringed by old antique pots, and the BMA calls those pots the garden's unique feature. The Botanical Garden runs as a nature trail past a banana garden of more than 70 species, Lan Thom and Lan Asoke. Three plant houses under the Thai Plants Building hold species and orchids region by region. The Royal Fragrant Garden collects aromatic plants including plants from Thai literature, and the Royal Grace Garden for the Visually Impaired, the first of its kind in Thailand, plants large fragrant rose bushes along an iron handrail so that the garden is smelled rather than seen. The Bangkok Children's Museum and the 72nd Anniversary Chalermprakiat Building stand in the same grounds.

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How long to spend

Allow 90 minutes for Queen Sirikit Park. That is long enough to walk the circuit past the letter-shaped pond, Lotus Square and the Royal Garden of 76 Provinces at the slow pace the plant labels reward, and to spend a few minutes inside the garden for the visually impaired without hurrying back. Cutting the visit to 45 minutes gives a pleasant walk and little else, because the plant houses and the fragrant garden sit on opposite sides of the water. Visitors who add the Bangkok Children's Museum should plan a half-day instead, since the museum is a destination in its own right and children do not leave it quickly. Anyone pairing Queen Sirikit Park with the Chatuchak weekend market next door should take the garden first, in the cool of the morning, and the market afterwards.

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Season and crowds

Queen Sirikit Park is open every day from 05:00 to 19:00 according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, and the first two hours after opening are the ones worth having. Bangkok's heat makes a midday circuit of a botanical garden hard work, and the early joggers thin out well before eight. Late afternoon from about 16:30 works nearly as well, with low light across the pond. The garden adjoins the Chatuchak weekend market, so Saturday and Sunday put far more people on the surrounding streets and in the car park than a weekday does, even though the planting beds themselves stay quieter than the market. The BMA notes that the leaves of the golden leaf vine in the Dao District area turn a coppery iridescent colour in August and September and silver in October, which gives that corner a season of its own.

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Tickets

Entry to Queen Sirikit Park is free. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration lists only two charges on the park's own page: 5 baht to use the bathroom, and parking at 20 baht for the first hour with the first 15 minutes free. No ticket office, no queue and no separate charge for any individual garden is published, so a visitor needs nothing more than small change. The Bangkok Children's Museum inside the grounds is run as a separate operation and the BMA park page publishes no admission price for it; anyone travelling specifically for the museum should confirm its own terms first rather than assume the park's free entry covers it.

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Getting there

Queen Sirikit Park stands on Kamphaeng Phet 2 Road, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900. For rail, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration directs visitors to BTS Mo Chit or MRT Chatuchak station; from either it is a walk through or around the Chatuchak green belt to the botanical garden on its western side. The BMA lists buses 77, 122, 136, 138 and 145 as serving the park. Parking is available on site and is charged by the hour. Anyone arriving at a weekend should expect the approach roads to be clogged by market traffic and should treat the train as the faster option rather than merely the cheaper one. The park telephone number published by the BMA is 02-272-4374.

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What to watch out for

Cycling is not allowed inside Queen Sirikit Park, and this is the rule that catches people out, because neighbouring Wachirabenchathat Park, known as Rot Fai Park, is a cycling park and the two are routinely confused. Pets are not allowed either, nor are drones, smoking, alcohol, gambling, trading or exchanging goods; the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration also asks visitors not to damage the trees and not to release aquatic animals into the water. Bathrooms cost 5 baht, so carry coins rather than notes. Queen Sirikit Park is a botanical collection rather than a lawn park: shade is uneven, the paths are long, and apart from the plant houses and the museum buildings there is little shelter from a downpour. Closing is at 19:00 across a large site, so turn back before the light goes rather than after.

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Photography

Drone flying is not allowed in Queen Sirikit Park, which rules out the aerial frame that would show the pond as the letters it was cut to form; from the ground it reads only as a curving waterway. The photographs that work here are close ones. Waterlilies repay an early start, while the flowers are still open; the antique pots around Lotus Square give foreground shape to an otherwise flat scene; and the labelled specimens inside the plant houses are lit by diffuse light through the roof, which does most of the work. The golden leaf vine in the Dao District area is a colour subject rather than a shape subject, coppery in August and September and silver in October. Late afternoon lays long light across the water, while midday flattens the beds and burns out white lotus. A short zoom earns its place here more than a wide lens, because the interest sits in individual plants rather than in vistas.

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Where it is

• 1 hour

  6 min walk · เขตจตุจักร

  Chatuchak Park

  • Must see
  • Nature site
• 1 hr 30 min

  6 min walk · เขตจตุจักร

  Children's Discovery Museum

  • High
  • Museum
• 2 hours

  9 min walk · เขตจตุจักร

  Wachirabenchathat Park

  • Must see
  • Nature site

External links

• Official site
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