The Historian · Chai · Bangkok
Wat Arun
Most visitors photograph the spires from the eastern bank and never cross. I always cross. The temple ground itself tells the Thonburi period that gets erased from official Bangkok
Pre-dates Bangkok by centuries. Taksin made it his royal chapel when Thonburi was the capital. The Prangs are 19th-century additions over a much older substrate.
— Chai, The Historian
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