Discovering Beyond the city wall - Bann Yuan (Vietnamese community)

Our walk this time will take us across the third moat, the final line of defence around the city. We are expecting to visit Wat Thewa Ratchakunchon, a temple with an outstanding sky-blue fresco in the ubosot, angels floating etc. also home of the Golden Teak Museum, Wat Raja, a forest temple, where Prince Mongkut founded the Thammayut Buddhist movement, and nearby are two villages that housed Khmer and Vietnamese Christians who had fled their homeland. This is Ban Yuan, the Village of the Vietnamese, and St Francis Xavier Church. There have been several Vietnamese settlements named Ban Yuan, but this is the largest and most enduring of them all. Suan sunandra palace resident the queen of king rama 5.

As always, please bring 300 THB for your tour guide.

And ... as with every other previous walk, we would like to ask to PLEASE leave home on time. When that should be, depends on where you live, but unless you live nearby, we suggest leaving AT LEAST an hour beforehand. To give you an idea, the ride from BTS Siam to the meeting point station takes about 20 minutes. We will always wait for about 5-10 minutes, but after that the group has to leave.Over 95% of our visitors are early or on time, so with your help, we can keep this going :)

Enjoy the walk