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Wat Arun

Bangkok's Temple of Dawn

  • Hours:
    Mo to Su from 08:30 AM to 05:30 PM
  • Focus:
    Religious Sights
  • Contact:
    Email / Website / +66 2 225 7612 (Tourist Information)
  • Neighborhood:
    Bangkok Yai
  • Address:
    34 Arun Amarin Road, Bangkok, 10600, Thailand
This light-and-sound presentation focuses on the history of one of Bangkok's most famous landmarks, Wat Arun, which was named after the Indian God of Dawn, Aruna. The temple features a porcelain-encrusted, 79-meter central pagoda, Phra Prang, that sparkles in the sun. It also has four towers symbolizing Mount Meru, the terrestrial representation of the 33 heavens. King Taksin selected it as a royal temple in 1767 as it was the first place in Thonburi to catch the early morning light. It housed the Emerald Buddha after it was recaptured from Laos and before it was moved to Wat Phra Kaeo in 1875.

This temple (also called Temple of the Dawn) is on the west side of the Chao Praya River, and the best place to photograph it is from the opposite side of the river since it is so tall.

This temple is considered to be the most famous and photographed temple in Bangkok, with a 250-foot-high tower decorated with thousands of tiny pieces of colored glass and Chinese porcelain. The best place to view/photograph Wat Arun is from the opposite side of the river. (It is located on the west side of the Chao Praya River while Wat Pho and the Grand Palace are on the east side of the Chao Praya.)

It is beautiful. We are at there very happy. I like their supermarkets, Parks, mountains, rivers, sea, tree, flowers, grass,etc. However, I love this place.

wat arun is the place i like. it is in bangkok thailand. i like the thailand country and alll the people in there, thailander people are like islander slippers.

it was fantastic very authentic very cheap but food waa great and people are so friendly everything about this city is just amazing and exotic

ha great places great restruants great hotel great places to hang out with freinds good shopping. fantastic beach lots of people gathering there all the time nice relaxing place. would like to go therem.

the different statues and all the friendly people. I love all of Thailand with a passion, and the culture is really amazing. I wish I were born in this country.

known as the temple of the dawn, along the chao phraya river and is on angkorian design

One of the most beautiful temples in bangkok. There a lot of temples sarrounding bangkok. They are very unique. It is a good way o getting to know the culture and its people.

its great

nice temple

Wat Arun or The temple of the dawn is one of the most beautiful temple in Bangkok. Nice architecture, and very beautiful when being watch from Chao Praya River.

it's a beautiful place there near Chaopraya river you can take a boat to see another temple around Chaopraya river and you can find a thai food it's very testy

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beautiful, amazing, fun, love, this is a place i have memory with my significant other. we had great time at Wat Arun

This is the most beautiful temple i've ever seen in my life.And if you can stay until sun set.It's going to be perfect.

Very quite and good place for turist, the temple are one of the major tourist attraction. I have visited it for quite some time.

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    Bangkok, Thailand

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