Markets, Chinatown and the old riverside
From Pak Khlong Talat flower market through Phahurat, Sampheng and Yaowarat to Assumption Cathedral: fabric stalls, temples, the Golden Buddha and old Bang Rak. A flat 6.5 km walk in crowded lanes, best with food breaks.
Route
Pak Khlong Talat (Flower Market)
24-hour wholesale flower market beside the Chao Phraya, supplying jasmine garlands for Bangkok's temples.
Phahurat Market
Century-old South Asian textile market built around a Sikh temple, packed with fabrics, saris, and street food.
Sampheng Market
Narrow two-century-old wholesale alley in the heart of Chinatown, once Bangkok's most notorious Sin Alley.
Wat Mangkon Kamalawat (Wat Leng Noei Yi)
Bangkok's most revered Chinese Buddhist temple, blending Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian shrines since the eighteen seventies.
Yaowarat Road
Winding "Dragon Road" at the heart of one of Asia's great Chinatowns, dense with gold shops and street food.
Wat Trai Mit Witthayaram Worawihan
Buddhist temple housing the world's largest solid gold Buddha, hidden under plaster for two centuries.
Talat Noi
Historic riverside neighbourhood of Chinese shophouses, metal workshops, shrines, and street art in Chinatown.
Bangkokian Museum
Three preserved teak houses from the nineteen thirties depicting middle-class Bangkok life across two decades.
9. General Post Office
Monumental nineteen-forties Art Deco building on the British Legation site, now a design center.
Assumption Cathedral
French Gothic Romanesque cathedral on the Chao Phraya, Bangkok's oldest Catholic site, with vaulted ceiling frescoes and Italian marble.