Erawan Museum Admission Ticket

Visit: Erawan Museum, 99/9 Moo 1 Sukhumvit Road Bangmuangmai, Samut Prakan 10270 Thailand

Experience a gigantic architecture of three-headed elephant made of bronze weighs 250 tons, is 29 metres high, 39 metres long and stands on a 15 meter high pedestal. Most importantly, get a special insight into Thai culture and religion at the Erawan Museum. If not after spiritual showiness, visitors can indulge in the serenity of Erawan's tropical gardens (50 baht just for entrance to the grounds). Thick drapes of rare flora, pavilions and rocks make it easy to find spiritual calmness, or seek quiet repose. Visitors can wander stone paths, cross diminutive streams or admire the vivid colourings of plants and palm trees with exotic titles like West Indian Jasmine, Ixora Bush and African Oil Palm. There is also the chance to feed schools of carp in the rock ponds (5 baht a bag), or seek out mythological statues throughout. Alternatively, go across the workshop to see how the craftspeople work metals into serene religious pieces, or join worshippers in delivering offerings of fruit at the famed elephant shrine. Another popular, and rather beautiful, merit-making pursuit is to set adrift lotus leafs on the decorative moat, and with them dispense of bad luck. Looming throughout however, as conspicuous as the elephant, is a surreal feeling. As you explore Erawan Museum, you seem at every turn to be wandering through the dreams of its creator.