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Lumpini Park

The Lumpini park is a huge park in the city of Bangkok that provides a nice and relaxing experience. Visitors love to spend time admiring the scenery and just relaxing in this beautiful park and enjoying its greenery.

Located quite centrally it is surrounded by major thoroughfares: Rama IV road in the south, Rajadamri road to the west, Withayu road to the east. The MRT (Bangkok subway system) has some stations very closeby, viz. the Silom station and the Lumpini station. However, these stations are not directly connected to the park. Using these stations, one has to be careful while crossing major roads to get to the park. The best access would perhaps be from the Rajadamri road station of the BTS (skytrain). It is a short walk from the Rajadamri station to the park entrance.

The park itself is very spacious and well kept, and at weekdays it is hardly crowded. There is an artificial lake and one can hire a boat to go paddling (or rather 'cycling') on it. The park also has one of the few public libraries in Bangkok, and a well used open-air exercise facility. In the early morning hours one can observe the practising of Tai-Chi.

Pets are not allowed. What is not quite understandable is that there are apparently no outlets where one can buy water or other drinks, so bring it along with you from outside if you want to spend some time walking or cycling there, the heat of Bangkok can be very taxing. The park is well used by joggers of all ages. On walking through it, we did not notice any facility that had bikes for rent. Cycling would otherwise be a good way of checking out the park and exercise a bit.

There are many benches and covered pavillions, so if you want you can relax quite conveniently and read a good book. Lots of birds (numerous pigeons) that are not at all very worried of staying in proximity of humans can be seen.

At the south-western corner is a statue of Rama IV of the Chakri Dynasty. Official ceremonies are sometimes performed there.