The Rose Garden, Bangkok, Thailand
New Visitor Attractions in The Rose Garden have Transformed the Park
Just outside Bangkok is The Rose Garden, a restful park built to display Thailand's arts, crafts & bounties. With its new canalside development, it also offers shopping.
Just an hour's drive from Bangkok is The Rose Garden, 70 acres of manicured gardens, river, lake, elephant enclosure and farms. It's a revelation to people who have seen only Bangkok and perhaps some of Thailand's famed seaside resorts, and it offers the visitor an idea of Thailand's natural bounties.
The Rose Garden has been in existence for many decades, but the new waterside development is becoming a No. 1 attraction in the Gardens, offering Thai shopping in serene surroundings.. The canalside has been totally transformed and each day the local villagers come to sell their fruits and vegetables fresh from their orchards. Many sellers also offer local delicacies unobtainable elsewhere. Also new, along the canal are:
- Rim Klong Cafe selling fresh coffee and The Rose Garden's own home baked goods fresh from the bakery.
- An excellent gift shop which stocks original gifts and Rose Garden souveneirs.
- A Thai Deli with homemade savoury and sweet delicacies.
- An Antique Thai House, the Ruen Fuengfa) where herbal soaps, herbal scents, organic products and virgin coconut oil are packaged and sold.
The Garden itself is an important botanical asset, preserving as it does many rare species of tree and flower. Here you will find the century-old Bullet trees, 80-year old coconut palms and over 30 species of banana. The property also grows its own herbs, coconut milk, an essential ingredient in Thai cooking, is made daily in the traditional way, and chilli pastes are fresh ground. These, along with the herbs, are used in the Rose Garden restaurants and spa. It's peaceful setting makes it a perfect place in which to recover one's sense of the importance of nature, and walking in the grounds restores a sense of serenity to the visitor perhaps overpowered by sight-seeing and shopping. The “animal lawn” adds a sense of playfulness.
For children, there is the hands on experience of rice farming, and they get to make fresh herbal drinks and juices and eat all the fruit they can manage!
As the sun goes down, the Garden's natural stage serve as a perfect backdrop to the firework display for which they have become famous.
Until March 2009 visitors can experience the new 3-day, 2-night Thai Wellness Package, a programme offering a balanced life in harmony with nature, which gives an insight into how Thai people lead healthy and balanced lives.
The programme includes:
- Two nights accommodation at Rose Garden Riverside with breakfast
- A rare form of Thai massage called Nuad Rajasamnak, followed by fresh herbal compresses at the Arusaya Spa. The whole treatment lasts for 110 minutes.
- Visiting the Thai Village and an opportunity to try out various arts and crafts.
- Crossing the river to visit the organic farm to pick vegetables and herbs for spa treatments.
- Thai Cooking Class with freshly picked ingredients from the organic farm, followed by dinner.
- A Herbal workshop where pupils learn about the in-house herbal products and make a traditional herbal inhaler.
Total costs approximately $340 or £170.
