Benjakitti Park

This guide to Benjakitti Park in Bangkok starts in the 1990s, when the Tobacco Authority of Thailand relocated its factory off the Sukhumvit corridor and left behind a hundred and eighty acres of prime central land that city planners chose to give back to the public rather than sell to developers. It traces the park's naming after Queen Sirikit and the lake and promenade that first opened around it. You'll hear about the 2022 project that gutted the old tobacco warehouses across the road and reimagined them as an ecological forest, planting thousands of new trees and wetland habitats. Walk the elevated skywalk to move through the canopy rather than beneath it.