Nakhon Pathom

Today is the Queen’s Birthday in Thailand and this also marks the calendar as Mother’s Day, so we head out to our favourite floating restaurant on the Tha Chan River Restaurant Location:

This is Songkran week, so the first thing Chanya wanted to do was visit Wat Rak Khing to make merit and do a little shopping. Wat Rai Khing Map Reference

So, on our way home from the Thai Human Imagery Museum, we stopped off at Central Plaza in Salaya to have a look around. Map Reference

The museum of Human Imagery is to Thai people what Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum is to the rest of the world. This nice but somewhat unknown museum located fifty kilometers outside Bangkok, just before reaching Nakorn Pathom, was built two decades ago but was recently renovated to become the beautiful …

We take a drive out to Phra Pathom Chedi Festival which is held annually during the 12th, lunar month. The festival is a time to pay homage to Phra Pathom Chedi and is held over nine days and nights. Phra Pathom Chedi พระปฐมเจดีย์