Christmas Bangkok |
Ratchaprasong junction is the name intersection, and a shopping district named after it in the Pathum Wan District, Bangkok. Besides, it's the shopping area, the Ratchaprasong intersection also the place for Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Every year from December to January, the street along the Ratchaprasong intersection will be decorated with colorful neon lights. This occasion will offer you to take a snapshot along the street which is around 20 meters long and 16 meters wide.
The tradition of decorating was started by Peninsular Plaza and The Regent hotel (now Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok). It later expanded to Sogo, now a part of Amarin Plaza, and Central World, Central Chitlom, and Gaysorn.
This is an enjoyable time, when you can sightsee how the beauty of it at night falls, Moreover each major shopping malls provide its own Christmas display featuring impressive, adorable, imaginative, and strange symbols and figures of the season.
Therefore it's the best opportunity for taking a photo as well as you can enjoy shopping the major shopping or if you you like to sip the beer under the colorful light, there also a beer garden with performance display each day in front of the Central World. Let's celebrate an enjoyable time at here Ratchaprasong intersection.
How to get there: Take the sky train BTS and take off at Chidlom station or you can take a taxi.