Dream World

This guide to Dream World, a family park north of Bangkok, follows its opening in 1993 by the Kitiparaphon family and the moment in 1997 when engineers built something unheard of in Thailand: a sealed room cold enough for real snow. It traces how Snow Town changed what visitors expected from the park, and the catastrophic 2011 floods that shut the grounds underwater for months. The entrance to Snow Town is worth pausing at, to feel the air turn cold before you step inside.