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Discover the best top things to do in Samut Prakan, Thailand including Ancient City (Mueang Boran), Mega Bangna, Bang Nam Phueng Floating Market, Erawan Museum, Phra Samut Chedi, BTS Skytrain, Bangpu Recreation Center, Wat Asokaram, Pororo Aquapark Bangkok, Imperial World.
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1. Ancient City (Mueang Boran)
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 850 reviews
One of the world’s largest outdoor museums features a 200-acre city with 109 scaled-down copies of Thailand’s most famous monuments and architectural attractions.
Reviewed By David B - Rayong, Thailand
The concept of Ancient City is as audacious as its execution is brilliant.
Ancient City, also known as Ancient Siam and Mueang Boran, is billed as the world's largest outdoor museum, spread over 0.81 square kilometers, and built roughly in the shape of a map of Thailand.
It is the concept of Thai insurance tycoon Lek Viriyahphant and his wife, Praphai. Lek had a vision of building a living park where Thais, and foreigners, could learn about the history of Siam (today's Thailand) and see evidence of its glorious heritage.
It features more than 120 replicas of ancient temples, pagodas, stupas, shrines, traditional Thai houses, floating markets, Thai junks and river boats.
The replicas were constructed under the direction of experts from the Thai National Museum to ensure accuracy.
Here are historical reproductions from the 9th Century Dvaravati era, through the Srivichaya, Khmer, Lanna, Lan Chang, Hariphunchai, Sukhothai, Authong, Ayutthayua, and Thonburi eras, right through to the later Rattanakosin era.
There are four ways of getting around this enormous museum-cum-park. Walk, or take a bicycle, which are provided free with your ticket price. Or you can pay THB 400 to drive your own car, or THB 150 an hour for an electronic golf buggy. Being a hot day, we chose the lazy option of the golf buggy.
Entrance to the park is THB 350 for Thais and THB 700 for foreigners. I was lucky and managed to get in at the Thai price of THB 350 on production of my passport which shows that I am a long-time resident of Thailand.
2. Mega Bangna
Overall Ratings
4 based on 421 reviews
Reviewed By Mr_Nobody_1979 - Krakow, Poland
This mall offers typical mall experience, with quite a few medium range international brands (Nike, adidas, timberland, Lacoste, etc.), decent cinema theatre, big grocery shop, quite a few chain restaurants and of course, IKEA. Good place to spend few hours, when weather is crap.
3. Bang Nam Phueng Floating Market
Overall Ratings
4 based on 137 reviews
Reviewed By joannehurley - London, United Kingdom
The market is pretty hard to find by bicycle. Lucky for google maps. It was average a few different food items than I had come across in Bangkok markets. Nothing special but worth a visit if you are cycling and you stumble across it, the cycle paths nearby are very nice.
4. Erawan Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 494 reviews
Reviewed By David B - Rayong, Thailand
If you visit Samut Prakan you cannot miss the Erawan Museum. it is a giant three-headed elephant standing 50 meters, or 15 storeys high.
It is the creation of the Thai insurance tycoon, Lek Viriyahphant and his wife, Praphai, the entrepreneurs behind the close-by Ancient City.
The Erawan Museum is certainly unique in its concept and its creation, and is breathtakingly beautiful, albeit in sometimes a weird way. But I must confess to a little disappointment. This is billed as a museum, but apart from some artefacts on the basement floor and about 10 antique Buddha statues on the top floor, it really is not a museum in the sense of the word that I understand.
Erawan Museum has a dual pricing system, THB 200 for Thais and THB 400 for foreigners. But I was lucky and managed to get in at the Thai price of THB 200 on production of my passport which shows that I am a long-term resident of Thailand.
There is a free car park nearby, with an electronic buggy shuttle between the car park and the museum.
5. Phra Samut Chedi
Overall Ratings
4 based on 13 reviews
Reviewed By David B - Rayong, Thailand
Phra Samut Chedi sits on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, originallyit was on an island in the river, but silt deposits have long since connected the island to the Mainland.
In fact, a hundred or more years ago, one of the first things that foreign visitors would have seen as they sailed up the Gulf of Siam towards the Chao Phraya and Bangkok would have been the white pagoda, which then was called Phra Chedi Klang Nam, meaning "The Pagoda in the River".
The origins of the temple date back to the reign of KIng Rama II with work starting in 1827. But he died and the pagoda was completed by King Rama III a year later.
Even later King Rama iV wanted to show all foreign visitors to Thailand that the people were Buddhists, so increased the height of the chedi to 38 meters.
6. BTS Skytrain
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 41 reviews
Bangkok’s answer to mass transit started operating in December 1999 and is a convenient and useful way of getting around the city.
7. Bangpu Recreation Center
Overall Ratings
4 based on 94 reviews
Reviewed By Rajesh K - Pune
We decided to visit nearest sea beach or sea shore near Bangkok and found out that Bangpoo Recreation Center is the Best.
So we started with our car and reached within 50 min. Nice arrangement for parking vehicles and pickup vehicles from parking to the spot. Recreation center is small but good and there is a big restaraunt inside which is very big. Looking at rush, we understood that it must be good and understood that this is very famous for crabs & fishes.
We could see birds feeding. Birds come close to you, you can see them their face, they come one by one and take the fed food as disciplined member.
Interesting place and amazed to see this place
8. Wat Asokaram
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 36 reviews
Reviewed By David B - Rayong, Thailand
As Thai Buddhist temples go, Wat Asokaram is a relative new-comer, being built in the early 1960s.
But it has its own uniqueness, including a group of 13 white pagodas, symbolising Buddha's disciples and, it is asserted, Buddha relics encased inside gold, silver and copper urns.
(If you took the time to go around the world and counted how many Buddha temples claim to have genuine Buddha relics, you would find that Buddha must have had more hair than a wooly mammoth and more teeth than a Great White Shark).
My cynical remarks to one side, Wat Asokaram is highly revered by Thai Buddhists and is famed for meditation and quite reflection.
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 18 reviews
Reviewed By Boise_Jax - Washington DC, District of Columbia
More than five stories above the road below, this water park is a blast with children and parents both. While it covers a rather small area, it has a wide variety of things to do: thrill rides, slides for smaller children, a lazy river, children's pool, and more. Of the three slides that were open the day I went - one was down for routine maintenance - it was necessary to rent a yellow inner tube (do it, it's only THB 60) but the blue tube needed for the other slide was free. The concession food is reasonably priced and includes both Thai and Western fare. There are less expensive mall water parks in the greater Bangkok area but they also tend to be much more crowded.
10. Imperial World
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 11 reviews
Reviewed By John K - Bangkok, Thailand
I can say I have been to this mall on occasion, and each time I am amazed how popular it is. Samut Prakan is a very different province from Bangkok. I would call it a working man’s province. there are few if any tourist attractions and is mostly industry. Because of that prices are Thai priced as this clearly is not a high end tourist destination mall. So of you want to venture just 1km outside of Bangkok, you will find this very wallet friendly mall.
At the moment the easiest way to get there is take the Skytrain to Bearing station and then public transportation for the last 1km. However sometime in 2016 the Skytrain will continue on into Samut Prakan making it walking distance from the nearest station.
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