Cruising the canals in Bangkok’s Thon Buri district. Bangkok’s first boundary was described in water. When King Rama I established the capital in 1782, it was on an island his predecessor had ...

Bangkok’s first boundary was described in water. When King Rama I established the capital in 1782, it was on an island his predecessor had made by cutting a canal across a peninsula in the Chao ...

Thailand has been known to reinvent itself, and the history of its canals is an excellent example of that. Christopher Wise Cruising the canals in Bangkok’s Thon Buri district. Bangkok’s first ...