Siam Amazing Park

This guide to Siam Amazing Park traces how a landlocked, coast-starved Bangkok got a beach of its own: developer Chaiwat Luangamornlert opening Thailand's first water park on the city's eastern edge in 1980 with just a few rides and a dream. It follows the decades after, as the wave pool he built kept expanding year after year, and the crowds who once called the place Suansiam, the Siam Garden, kept coming back. Listen for how a bus ride replaced a trip to the coast for a generation of Bangkok families.