Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The Jim Thompson House is a museum in the former home of the American silk merchant Jim Thompson, who assembled it in 1958-59 from six traditional teak houses, most brought from Ayutthaya, beside the Saen Saep canal. It shows his collection of Buddhist sculpture, Thai paintings and Chinese porcelain, and the main house is seen on guided tours.
An aquarium inside the Siam Paragon shopping centre, opened as Siam Ocean World in December 2005 and now part of Merlin Entertainments' SEA LIFE chain. Its galleries cover about 10,000 square metres and hold some five million litres of water, with zones for rainforest animals, coral reefs, sharks, jellyfish, an ocean tunnel and gentoo penguins.
Wat Phra Kaew, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, is the royal temple in the outer court of the Grand Palace, begun in 1783 under Rama I. Its ordination hall houses the Emerald Buddha, a small jade-green image whose robes the king changes with the seasons; around it stand gilded chedis, the Royal Pantheon and cloisters painted with the Ramakien.
The Grand Palace is the walled complex of halls, pavilions and courtyards on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River that served as the residence of the Kings of Siam from 1782, when Rama I founded Bangkok. It is still used for royal ceremonies; visitors walk through the outer and middle courts to buildings such as the Chakri Maha Prasat Throne Hall.
A 314-metre skyscraper in Bang Rak, designed by Ole Scheeren's practice and opened in 2016, whose glass façade is broken by a spiralling band of pixel-like cut-outs. The Mahanakhon SkyWalk occupies its top floors: an indoor observation deck on the 74th floor and an open-air rooftop on the 78th with a glass floor 310 metres above the street.
Asiatique Sky is a 60-metre Ferris wheel on the Chao Phraya riverfront at Asiatique, the open-air night market built in the former docks of the East Asiatic Company. Its enclosed gondolas make a ride of about 20 minutes, with views over the river, the Charoen Krung district and the city skyline.
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