The best Lumphini Park-Video I've seen so far. I often visit the park, running around and filming but with all this background infos I will get another view on this park if I go there again.
Thanks Frank, this is why l've spent so much time at the park recently. I go to shoot but then l think l'll quickly visit the cats and then the day is gone.....
Yea, it is a good one. I walked through Lumpini Park almost daily in 1990-91. I lived between Sathorn and Silom so it was a nice walk after work which was just to the NE of the Park.
Lumbini isn't the God of anything - it's the birthplace of Lord Buddha in Southern Nepal. Siddhartha Gautama was born there in 623 B.C., and Lumbini became an important place of pilgrimage, visited by the likes of Emperor Ashoka of India. Thanks for all your superb videos, they bring back a lot of fond memories...
Absolutely brilliant, Pat. As a fellow Vlogger and someone who first visited Bangkok in 1973 , I appreciate the time, effort and skill put into your videos : editing, providing voice overs, slow and quick motion, still shots and your choice of appropriate music. You have a gift , Pat . We are all lucky that you have put your passion into brilliant videos. Thankyou.
Remember many nights in the Lumphini boxing stadium, was great vibe, tiers of wooden seats , betting touts , the traditional fight dancing & flute music before a fight & some serious fighting. Was always on my list to got to when in Bangkok. Didn't know it was demolished.
You bring back wonderful memories of our 16 years in The Kingdom and countless hours in that beautiful green oasis. Keep up the great work. Matt and Karen
Another great video BKK Pat, love the old footage comparisons. I'd hate to see Lumpini Park renovated beyond recognition, or buildings erected that replace existing parklands. I'd be happy just to see the old girl just get a new lick of paint, she's perfect the way she is now.
I remember Lumphini Night Market. First time going to one. Love it. We dont have anything like that here in New Zealand. Not long after that it was closed down. Bad bad mistake.
Great video Pat. I've lost count of how many laps I've ran around Lumphini earlier this year so this was a really cool insight into a place I spent a lot of time in. Also was lucky to visit Lumphini Stadium in 2012 so at least I can say I've been to such a historic place!
First, thankyou for all your excellent and informative videos. I found your channel quite by accident - glad I did. You and viewers of this channel might be interested to know some of the history of the (almost) open site on the north-east corner of Lumphini Park; the site bounded by Wireless Road, Benchakitt Walkway, Polo 1 and Sanam Khli. This was the old site of the Na Nakhon mansion house, known colloquially in the past (according to my late cousin) as Number One Bangkok because it was the largest private house in the city except, of course, for the royal residences. During the Second World War it was requisitioned by the government and handed over to the Japanese high command as a special operations centre and residence for senior Japanese officers. After the war, the history of the site was blurred; some in government, and in the family, claimed that the family sold it to pay gambling debts while others said it was never handed back to the family and was sold under suspicious circumstances and the house demolished. Since then, litigation by all sorts of people, including some family members, has meant the site remained empty for decades. I first visited the site it in 2002 when I first explored my own Thai heritage (long story) when the whole site was empty apart from some shacks near the walkway; then the outline of the old foundations and gardens were still just visible. Since then, various bits have been built upon. My cousins and the older generations of my family remember living in the house and so its demolition was incredibly sad for them. A few of those older family members are still alive and I often wonder how much history resides in their memories. Best wishes, Nick Nakorn (Chulapatnabongse Na Nakhorn / Na Nagara)
The black and white cat is a legend as it just lies in the middle of the footpath while hundreds of runners go past, not a care in the world. Everyone who frequents Lumphini often would recognise her. I think there modernisation photos of the park are terrible. Tbh i really like what they achieved over at the tobacco factories at Benchakiti Park. I do think the kids playground could do with a revamp thou. Great video, i really enjoyed it.
18:34 Getting mugged in Central Park... A tale of two parks: Post-pandemic, the crime rate in NYC has increased. There are still many places around Central Park that are quite safe though; e.g., The Metropolitan of Museum Art on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side. I highly doubt if the perimeter of Lumphini Park would transform anytime soon into a cultural hub like the Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue. From CP, the iconic views of the Plaza on CPS and the Dakota and the San Remo on CPW are majestic and magical, with different charms throughout the four seasons -- “Autumn in New York. Why does it seem so inviting?” ... It’s Ella and Louis! -- a contrast to the always lush and verdant oasis of Lumphini, which is a bit of a one-note to me though. At any rate, the recent deluge of super-tall, pencil-thin residential buildings on 57th Street, aka the Billionaires’ Row, has caused a blight on the Manhattan skyline. These anorexic towers, casting long shadows over the park grounds, are quite an eyesore to this hard-cored New Yorker. Hopefully, the nascent Dusit Central Park and One Bangkok -- both are mixed-use developments overlooking Lumphini -- won’t incur similar and lasting damage to the city skyline. (The Ghost Tower in Bangkok, hmm...) We can be wishful, can’t we?
Love learning about the history of Lumphini Park, and of course the cats 🐱 Bangkok Pat is the man to see about how history has shaped modern-day Bangkok. You always learn something new from him even though you think you know it all!
Another very informative video with loads of new and old photos, really like your history narative. I remember; staying at Nana hotel then taking a taxi to Patpong. Taxis just cut through Lumphini park, that was back in late 70's.
Moniter lizards by day,,, "dodgy" stuff at night. YES ! 🎉 After 17 visits, Bangkok is still my kinda place. 🙏 ขอบคุณ Your videography and captivating narration is exceptional !
I have to say I do like the look of the Helter Skelter walkway if only for it's architectural fun ...What an oasis of calm in BKK, long may it continue. All the best :)
I actually visited the Dusit site and the project was explained in detail including what plans they have for the new hotel, office building, and residential tower, as well as the green space they plan on the roof of the planned mall. Most interestingly it's how they have been preserving the heritage of the old Dusit. You should go in and see for yourself; it's better than the sight of construction from outside at present.
There's a tale to be told about why the Dusit wasn't knocked down (say) 20 years back -- considerations of taste and heritage aside it was a very inefficient use of space by early 2000s and having BTS and MRT stations on doorstep made it a no-brainer. Someone had a sentimental attachment to the joint... In other totally unrelated news, the Fibonacci Sequence begins like this: 1 1 2 (ahem) 3, 5 , 8...
I was just there last month. Every day I will take a walk in the Park in the morning when the air quality wasn’t so bad thank you for researching the long history of the park. Makes me wanna go back again.
Bangkok’s great parks - Lumphini, Rama IX, Forest Park, and Chatuchak parks are parks that Bangkok can be proud of. Add the Green Lung to that list too.
Thanks for sharing these videos. I’m a Thai person, lived in the US all my life. Born in bkk and lived in Thailand for the first 9 years of my childhood. These videos are a great way for me to reconnect and prep for my bi-annual trip back to Thailand with the family. We’ll be staying away from the red district tho 😂 Appreciate it Pat! Cheer ❤
Love this video. I lived at Sukon Court on Silom, Sathorn Neua for a year back in 2000. It was a short daily walk to the park every day and one of my favorite places. Sad to see the night market and everything else pretty much gone but at least (for now) the park looks pretty much the same. The condo I used to live in was really large and had some great views, especially of the unfinished buildings that stood silent during the economic crash. The Australian embassy used to be right across the street next to the Thai Wah Tower and was a great place to read the BKK Post and grab a coffee every morning. I am just back from a month in Thailand and went on a tour of the old neighborhood and everything is almost unrecognizable now. Sukon Court was razed and a fancy new building called Kronos, stands in it's place. Soi Convent has changed a lot but oddly enough Soi Saladaeng still looks a bit the same. Thanks so much for this video. It really brought back pleasant memories!
I love your videos Pat. Really well planned out and informative. Considering the other Thailand based UA-camrs out there, you should have 3X the number of subscribers that you do.
What I do isn't really seen as cool, influential or trendy, it's very nerdy and niche to the kind of folks who get off on watching malls, pad thai and markets over and over again.
@BangkokPat You do such a thorough and great job on every video. The music you choose is perfectly matched to the scenes you are portraying. It's difficult to explain but your videos are so soothing and relaxing to watch. I often turn one on in the afternoon, fall asleep for a nap and then start the same video again from the beginning and watch it properly. Never disappointed and always entertained. Thank you mate.
Yet another great cover story that i had to pause from time to time because it is so dense with information I remember enjoying a concert at that beer garden around 2006-2007 Respect for the effort you put into this !
Congratulations on making the best English speaking youtube video on Lumpini park to date.Thank you for your effort in giving us all a deeper appreciation of what is my favourite city park in the world.👍
Thank you for the excellent video, my son born in the Hospital near the park, the video brings back great memories when I used to live in Bangkok, greetings from Hungary
A stunning park with all the high rises around it. I moved to Thailand from Boulder, Colorado, U.S. to Koh Samui 24 years ago. Kept my house on Koh Samui got married to a Thai Lady and now we live in Nakhon Sawan in a peaceful Thai village outside the city. All the time living here I never explored Bangkok and know only the places like the Royal Palace and other tourist sites thank you for showing me around Bangkok I really like your videos and your wonderful photography. The Thais make really cool-looking buildings for sure, such eyes for the beauty and talent of the architects!☮😎✌💥 p.s. I adore cats like you they are so clever and cool. I got my first cat when I was in grade school she was Black and had a Siamese mother and my mother named her Lucretia and from then on she started making a house full of cats by the time I was a teenager and even older there were 6 meows still there when I was visiting. This was in the Northshore of Chicago where I was raised in a well-to-do town called Winnetka because my father was a top Trial lawyer in Chicago who took a train to work each day and was at the top of his class at Harvard Law School after WW2 which he fought in. Thank you again for your wonderful history lessons and beautiful videos.
I have been traveling/teaching and living in Thailand since 2004. Looking forward to spending a month there in Jan. to celebrate 20 years of exploring this great country. God must of known me to well as he provided me a Thai wife that I met at work in America. Looking forward to meeting her family for the first time. Because of Covid it has been a while. Great documentary on the Park. I miss going to Suan-Lum Night Bazaar, went there several times before it closed.
Well done Pat, the best history videos I’ve seen on UA-cam. Very well researched and presented, I’m surprised BBC hasn’t hit you up to do a travel / history show !
I missed the Suan Lum Night Bazaar, I used to go there a lot. I heard that many of those street vendors moved to Asiatique after it closed , but still it was one of the best and traditional night market.
Good analysis of the three parks, I been in all three and Lumphini Park is my favorite and central park being my least favorite. I live all my life two hours away from Central Park and hate everything about New York City
I am glad you showed this because I remembered A strange day in Bangcock when My head stopped working and I became lost and I walked around this area and got lost and wanderd around the city with no real goal and got lost and confused every place,. The next day I had to report to the hospital with a terrible blood clot in my leg. So maybe pay attention to your mood if you do unusual stuff while traveling , CHEERS ! be careful guys ! ☀☀☀☀☀
Thank you Pat, your tour and exploration is always a delight, thrown in with a bit of history that is interesting . Love your video and it is a pathway for people like me who is a Thailand lover!
Very informative and interesting video. Suan Lum is my fav park in the world, I like the old school serenity of the place, you can really relax there and feel at peace, I hope it never changes. On every trip to Bkk, I always "Touch Base" with Lumpini at least once; and I love it also for all those Maew there too!!!! just helps you feel even more relaxed with a puss hanging around.
A trip down memory lane! Back in the late 1960s, in the morning the school van would pick me up on Sukhumvit Soi 22 and the route would go along Phloen Chit Rd, turn left at the Erawan shrine, pass the Erawan hotel on Ratchadamri, with the Dusit Thani hotel straight ahead, and turn right onto Silom and finally the Assumption College in Bang Rak. The trip home in the afternoon would pass Lumphini Park on Rama IV and the boxing stadium on the left, towards Phra Khanong, the very far outskirts of Sukhumvit back then. We went to the tented circus -- when they were in town -- in Lumphini a few times and the miniature golf course on the park grounds was quite enjoyable for this then-10-year-old kid. There was a plethora of BBQ joints around the boxing stadium. The grilled chicken there (called Gai-Yang-Sanam-Muay in Thai) was simply out-of-this-world yummiest! Stayed at the Dusit Thani back in 2000 for a few nights. The hotel was dilapidated by then. A miserable experience there, quite a contrast to the always splendid Oriental where I had a one-week splurge the year prior in 1999.
First time I went there I was terrified of the Monitor lizard’s and vowed never to return. Great video Pat love the history particularly the old photos. Spent a day travelling across Bangkok on Wednesday, what a traffic nightmare 😮
Great video. I remember suan lum beer gatden well. Used to like having a beer there and something to eat. I must get myself down to lumpini park as i haven't been for a while.
wow very nice content friend
Great video as always Sir Pat
The best Lumphini Park-Video I've seen so far. I often visit the park, running around and filming but with all this background infos I will get another view on this park if I go there again.
Thanks Frank, this is why l've spent so much time at the park recently. I go to shoot but then l think l'll quickly visit the cats and then the day is gone.....
Yea, it is a good one. I walked through Lumpini Park almost daily in 1990-91. I lived between Sathorn and Silom so it was a nice walk after work which was just to the NE of the Park.
Love to see a video on Convent rd and surrounds south of Silom not far from Lumpini Park! Was my Thailand BKK arrival point decades ago!..
Love your channel Pat. Love your content and love your humour. It is great to see all the old footage and photos of how things used to be. Cheers
Thank you for this awesome video and the awesome music that you used.
Fantastic video Pat😊😊😊😊😊
Enjoyed the video Pat.
Lumbini isn't the God of anything - it's the birthplace of Lord Buddha in Southern Nepal. Siddhartha Gautama was born there in 623 B.C., and Lumbini became an important place of pilgrimage, visited by the likes of Emperor Ashoka of India.
Thanks for all your superb videos, they bring back a lot of fond memories...
Thank you so much again. Really enjoyed it ♥️
Absolutely brilliant, Pat. As a fellow Vlogger and someone who first visited Bangkok in 1973 , I appreciate the time, effort and skill put into your videos : editing, providing voice overs, slow and quick motion, still shots and your choice of appropriate music. You have a gift , Pat . We are all lucky that you have put your passion into brilliant videos. Thankyou.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the kind words Steven😎
Feel honored that you replied promptly. So much respect for you and your work. @@BangkokPat
Thank you for very deep information. Many things, I did not before.
This is a wonderful video about the park and its surrounds. Thanks Pat
I love Lumpini in the morning! Great way to start your day!
Great video - as considerable effort undertaken. Thank you.
Pat, what a gem! You’ve outdone yourself. Such a thoroughly enjoyable piece. Thank you so much!
Thanks so much for supporting 😻
Thanks for this video of Lumphini Park, many happy memories 100%.
Love all your videos. Nobody brings us closer to Bangkok than you.
It's great learning that not all of Bangkok's past is disappearing. Happy hundredth birthday to Lumphini Park (in a little more than a year!)
Thank you! 😃
Great job Pat.
Remember many nights in the Lumphini boxing stadium, was great vibe, tiers of wooden seats , betting touts , the traditional fight dancing & flute music before a fight & some serious fighting. Was always on my list to got to when in Bangkok. Didn't know it was demolished.
Ah nice, I always wondered why Wireless Road was called that!
You bring back wonderful memories of our 16 years in The Kingdom and countless hours in that beautiful green oasis. Keep up the great work. Matt and Karen
Another great video BKK Pat, love the old footage comparisons.
I'd hate to see Lumpini Park renovated beyond recognition, or buildings erected that replace existing parklands.
I'd be happy just to see the old girl just get a new lick of paint, she's perfect the way she is now.
Was there yesterday too, very beautiful!
@@FromDKtoBKK, very jealous!
Bangkok is amazing!
❤ 🇹🇭
Totally agree. It's a wonderful place already.
I remember Lumphini Night Market. First time going to one. Love it. We dont have anything like that here in New Zealand. Not long after that it was closed down. Bad bad mistake.
Kind of cute Dusit Thani Hotel was the favourite hangout for an unnamed person, bring her lover there 👸🏻
nice video! man those lizards are big 😮. and good to see the cat cameos 😂
Some of the best times I’ve had in Lumphini Park is listening to the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra play free concerts in the park.
Another very informative video. Good to see the channel growing. You deserve it.
Excellent video. Very interesting
Great video Pat. I've lost count of how many laps I've ran around Lumphini earlier this year so this was a really cool insight into a place I spent a lot of time in. Also was lucky to visit Lumphini Stadium in 2012 so at least I can say I've been to such a historic place!
First, thankyou for all your excellent and informative videos. I found your channel quite by accident - glad I did. You and viewers of this channel might be interested to know some of the history of the (almost) open site on the north-east corner of Lumphini Park; the site bounded by Wireless Road, Benchakitt Walkway, Polo 1 and Sanam Khli. This was the old site of the Na Nakhon mansion house, known colloquially in the past (according to my late cousin) as Number One Bangkok because it was the largest private house in the city except, of course, for the royal residences. During the Second World War it was requisitioned by the government and handed over to the Japanese high command as a special operations centre and residence for senior Japanese officers. After the war, the history of the site was blurred; some in government, and in the family, claimed that the family sold it to pay gambling debts while others said it was never handed back to the family and was sold under suspicious circumstances and the house demolished. Since then, litigation by all sorts of people, including some family members, has meant the site remained empty for decades.
I first visited the site it in 2002 when I first explored my own Thai heritage (long story) when the whole site was empty apart from some shacks near the walkway; then the outline of the old foundations and gardens were still just visible. Since then, various bits have been built upon. My cousins and the older generations of my family remember living in the house and so its demolition was incredibly sad for them. A few of those older family members are still alive and I often wonder how much history resides in their memories.
Best wishes, Nick Nakorn (Chulapatnabongse Na Nakhorn / Na Nagara)
Wow had no idea about the history. Thanks for sharing.
Great Video, i love it! ❤
Thank you! 😄
another great video.. Great park. It really is seedy at night, full of shadow people .
Not so bad inside the park but around the outside on those two streets can be a bit seedy when there are kerb crawlers etc
The black and white cat is a legend as it just lies in the middle of the footpath while hundreds of runners go past, not a care in the world. Everyone who frequents Lumphini often would recognise her.
I think there modernisation photos of the park are terrible. Tbh i really like what they achieved over at the tobacco factories at Benchakiti Park.
I do think the kids playground could do with a revamp thou.
Great video, i really enjoyed it.
18:34 Getting mugged in Central Park...
A tale of two parks:
Post-pandemic, the crime rate in NYC has increased. There are still many places around Central Park that are quite safe though; e.g., The Metropolitan of Museum Art on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side. I highly doubt if the perimeter of Lumphini Park would transform anytime soon into a cultural hub like the Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue.
From CP, the iconic views of the Plaza on CPS and the Dakota and the San Remo on CPW are majestic and magical, with different charms throughout the four seasons -- “Autumn in New York. Why does it seem so inviting?” ... It’s Ella and Louis! -- a contrast to the always lush and verdant oasis of Lumphini, which is a bit of a one-note to me though.
At any rate, the recent deluge of super-tall, pencil-thin residential buildings on 57th Street, aka the Billionaires’ Row, has caused a blight on the Manhattan skyline. These anorexic towers, casting long shadows over the park grounds, are quite an eyesore to this hard-cored New Yorker. Hopefully, the nascent Dusit Central Park and One Bangkok -- both are mixed-use developments overlooking Lumphini -- won’t incur similar and lasting damage to the city skyline. (The Ghost Tower in Bangkok, hmm...) We can be wishful, can’t we?
Love learning about the history of Lumphini Park, and of course the cats 🐱 Bangkok Pat is the man to see about how history has shaped modern-day Bangkok. You always learn something new from him even though you think you know it all!
Cheers Derek😎😻
This has to be one of your best videos. Thank you for producing it.
Cheers Robert 😎
Thank you for another great slice of Bangkok.
I had no idea Lumphini Park had such a history. Next time I go for a run around it I will keep my eyes peeled 🎉
Another very informative video with loads of new and old photos, really like your history narative. I remember; staying at Nana hotel then taking a taxi to Patpong. Taxis just cut through Lumphini park, that was back in late 70's.
Moniter lizards by day,,, "dodgy" stuff at night. YES ! 🎉 After 17 visits, Bangkok is still my kinda place. 🙏 ขอบคุณ Your videography and captivating narration is exceptional !
Nothing less than the best. Thank You!
That was a well done video
Your absolute legend pat 👏 This was another fine master peice from you 🌟
I have to say I do like the look of the Helter Skelter walkway if only for it's architectural fun ...What an oasis of calm in BKK, long may it continue. All the best :)
Luckily it looks like all those additions to the park isn't gonna happen as the new Bangkok governor has put a stop to it.
Thank you for the great video's
I actually visited the Dusit site and the project was explained in detail including what plans they have for the new hotel, office building, and residential tower, as well as the green space they plan on the roof of the planned mall. Most interestingly it's how they have been preserving the heritage of the old Dusit. You should go in and see for yourself; it's better than the sight of construction from outside at present.
There's a tale to be told about why the Dusit wasn't knocked down (say) 20 years back -- considerations of taste and heritage aside it was a very inefficient use of space by early 2000s and having BTS and MRT stations on doorstep made it a no-brainer. Someone had a sentimental attachment to the joint... In other totally unrelated news, the Fibonacci Sequence begins like this: 1 1 2 (ahem) 3, 5 , 8...
Love your music also Pat.❤❤
Glad to see you got some use from the footage you shot at my place Pat! 20:04
Finally I have made use of what I filmed that day, although I'm sure I've used a few seconds of it elsewhere but I can't remember!!
So good. Thanks for that. Nostalgic for sure. Love the histoic photography.and compairisons.. Can't wait for the next!
I was just there last month. Every day I will take a walk in the Park in the morning when the air quality wasn’t so bad thank you for researching the long history of the park. Makes me wanna go back again.
Bangkok’s great parks - Lumphini, Rama IX, Forest Park, and Chatuchak parks are parks that Bangkok can be proud of. Add the Green Lung to that list too.
Yet another five-star video by you Bangkok Pat,❤❤
Another great trip through the rich history of Bangkok! Great work. Thank you for what you do.
Interesting and informative 👏 Great job Pat!
So many historical notes and little hidden places. Good job!
Thank you for always showing pictures of the past ❤
Thanks for sharing these videos. I’m a Thai person, lived in the US all my life. Born in bkk and lived in Thailand for the first 9 years of my childhood. These videos are a great way for me to reconnect and prep for my bi-annual trip back to Thailand with the family. We’ll be staying away from the red district tho 😂 Appreciate it Pat! Cheer ❤
Love this video. I lived at Sukon Court on Silom, Sathorn Neua for a year back in 2000. It was a short daily walk to the park every day and one of my favorite places. Sad to see the night market and everything else pretty much gone but at least (for now) the park looks pretty much the same. The condo I used to live in was really large and had some great views, especially of the unfinished buildings that stood silent during the economic crash. The Australian embassy used to be right across the street next to the Thai Wah Tower and was a great place to read the BKK Post and grab a coffee every morning. I am just back from a month in Thailand and went on a tour of the old neighborhood and everything is almost unrecognizable now. Sukon Court was razed and a fancy new building called Kronos, stands in it's place. Soi Convent has changed a lot but oddly enough Soi Saladaeng still looks a bit the same. Thanks so much for this video. It really brought back pleasant memories!
Excellent to see this,my wife used to work in Suan Lum,we lived 400 yards away near Rama 4
Truly a superb video, good story telling, great transitions (22:18) beautiful shots.
You put your heart in your work, and the result is captivating.
Thanks a lot, the work I do is a labour of love!
I love your videos Pat. Really well planned out and informative. Considering the other Thailand based UA-camrs out there, you should have 3X the number of subscribers that you do.
What I do isn't really seen as cool, influential or trendy, it's very nerdy and niche to the kind of folks who get off on watching malls, pad thai and markets over and over again.
@BangkokPat You do such a thorough and great job on every video. The music you choose is perfectly matched to the scenes you are portraying. It's difficult to explain but your videos are so soothing and relaxing to watch. I often turn one on in the afternoon, fall asleep for a nap and then start the same video again from the beginning and watch it properly. Never disappointed and always entertained. Thank you mate.
Great video. Off to Bkk tmw for 10 days. Will defjnitely visit.
Once again, excellent video and very informative
Yet another great cover story that i had to pause from time to time because it is so dense with information
I remember enjoying a concert at that beer garden around 2006-2007
Respect for the effort you put into this !
Congratulations on making the best English speaking youtube video on Lumpini park to date.Thank you for your effort in giving us all a deeper appreciation of what is my favourite city park in the world.👍
Thank you! 😃
Great job. The video filmed with such deepth knowledge of the subject, love and passion. Very informative.
Thank you
Someone just commented my videos make them fall asleep, obviously l need to show a few pad thais and malls to keep the sheep excited! Cheers Alex😻😎
Excellent video and unique content. Thank you!
Thank you for the excellent video, my son born in the Hospital near the park, the video brings back great memories when I used to live in Bangkok, greetings from Hungary
Wow, great video and information. Thank you for your work putting this together. I hope you get tons more subscribers!
Lovely cats. Thank you for caring for them. ❤
A stunning park with all the high rises around it. I moved to Thailand from Boulder, Colorado, U.S. to Koh Samui 24 years ago. Kept my house on Koh Samui got married to a Thai Lady and now we live in Nakhon Sawan in a peaceful Thai village outside the city. All the time living here I never explored Bangkok and know only the places like the Royal Palace and other tourist sites thank you for showing me around Bangkok I really like your videos and your wonderful photography. The Thais make really cool-looking buildings for sure, such eyes for the beauty and talent of the architects!☮😎✌💥 p.s. I adore cats like you they are so clever and cool. I got my first cat when I was in grade school she was Black and had a Siamese mother and my mother named her Lucretia and from then on she started making a house full of cats by the time I was a teenager and even older there were 6 meows still there when I was visiting. This was in the Northshore of Chicago where I was raised in a well-to-do town called Winnetka because my father was a top Trial lawyer in Chicago who took a train to work each day and was at the top of his class at Harvard Law School after WW2 which he fought in. Thank you again for your wonderful history lessons and beautiful videos.
Cheers for the stories David, it's a great park with a nice cat population.
I have been traveling/teaching and living in Thailand since 2004. Looking forward to spending a month there in Jan. to celebrate 20 years of exploring this great country. God must of known me to well as he provided me a Thai wife that I met at work in America. Looking forward to meeting her family for the first time. Because of Covid it has been a while. Great documentary on the Park. I miss going to Suan-Lum Night Bazaar, went there several times before it closed.
Well done Pat, the best history videos I’ve seen on UA-cam. Very well researched and presented, I’m surprised BBC hasn’t hit you up to do a travel / history show !
I'm not woke enough for the BBC
@@BangkokPat ha ha yes I didn’t know that about BBC, from Oz so we don’t get that channel.
@@BangkokPatHere in Milton Keynes the B B C is still a joke !
Really enjoyed this video Pat, well done. Thank you. aka JG in TX
Great video with historic information.
I love your videos
Great video and you've got a great sound system.
I missed the Suan Lum Night Bazaar, I used to go there a lot. I heard that many of those street vendors moved to Asiatique after it closed , but still it was one of the best and traditional night market.
The health organisation I work for had an office in one of the water towers. Great place to work and location. Loved walking in the park.
Good analysis of the three parks, I been in all three and Lumphini Park is my favorite and central park being my least favorite. I live all my life two hours away from Central Park and hate everything about New York City
I am glad you showed this because I remembered A strange day in Bangcock when My head stopped working and I became lost and I walked around this area and got lost and wanderd around the city with no real goal and got lost and confused every place,. The next day I had to report to the hospital with a terrible blood clot in my leg. So maybe pay attention to your mood if you do unusual stuff while traveling , CHEERS ! be careful guys ! ☀☀☀☀☀
Amazing work as always.
I've only heard mention of Lumphini when it's uttered over the BTS intercom. Now I see there's much more than just a station.
Great video Pat. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Ken😎
Had some good laughs watching this one. Another excellent production Pat .
Thanks Terry 👍
Thank you Pat, your tour and exploration is always a delight, thrown in with a bit of history that is interesting . Love your video and it is a pathway for people like me who is a Thailand lover!
Thank you very much 😇😻
Very informative and interesting video. Suan Lum is my fav park in the world, I like the old school serenity of the place, you can really relax there and feel at peace, I hope it never changes. On every trip to Bkk, I always "Touch Base" with Lumpini at least once; and I love it also for all those Maew there too!!!! just helps you feel even more relaxed with a puss hanging around.
A wonderful park, a wonderful story and a wonderful cat
Great content! The most informative video on Lumpini park I’ve ever seen.
Another fantastic walk down memory Soi with Pat. Well done!
Cheers Tim!
A trip down memory lane!
Back in the late 1960s, in the morning the school van would pick me up on Sukhumvit Soi 22 and the route would go along Phloen Chit Rd, turn left at the Erawan shrine, pass the Erawan hotel on Ratchadamri, with the Dusit Thani hotel straight ahead, and turn right onto Silom and finally the Assumption College in Bang Rak.
The trip home in the afternoon would pass Lumphini Park on Rama IV and the boxing stadium on the left, towards Phra Khanong, the very far outskirts of Sukhumvit back then.
We went to the tented circus -- when they were in town -- in Lumphini a few times and the miniature golf course on the park grounds was quite enjoyable for this then-10-year-old kid. There was a plethora of BBQ joints around the boxing stadium. The grilled chicken there (called Gai-Yang-Sanam-Muay in Thai) was simply out-of-this-world yummiest!
Stayed at the Dusit Thani back in 2000 for a few nights. The hotel was dilapidated by then. A miserable experience there, quite a contrast to the always splendid Oriental where I had a one-week splurge the year prior in 1999.
sounds pretty neat
Great video, well worth the wait. Benjakitti park is so much nicer for sweaty joggers but seems to get nowhere near the numbers of Lumpini.
That's a positive l suppose. The last thing you need is a bunch of middle aged sweaty expats invading that park 😎
Nice vlog dj. Some very nice scenes in there to paint
Thanks 👍
First time I went there I was terrified of the Monitor lizard’s and vowed never to return. Great video Pat love the history particularly the old photos. Spent a day travelling across Bangkok on Wednesday, what a traffic nightmare 😮
Great vid. Every time I am in Bangkok I happen to be in Lumphini. The first time was in 2014 but it was not so popular as it is now.
The definitive Lumphini Park video for a few years. Great job, great research, great video, as always 👍🙏👍
Pat, you did the neighborhood a solid, with this expose! Thanx for all the great work!
Fascinating. Cheers Pat.
Thanks mate😎
Great video.
I remember suan lum beer gatden well.
Used to like having a beer there and something to eat.
I must get myself down to lumpini park as i haven't been for a while.
If you haven't been for a while, the number of cats may surprise you😻