Bangkok Protestant Cemetery

And so farewell….

Interesting. People we never knew come to life in their images on their tombstones. What happened to them? Why so young? Struck by a car in Saigon! And returned to a last resting place here. Thailand’...

A bit of history in a peaceful location

A cemetery may not seem an obvious recommendation for an outing but this place is full of history from young seafarers who never made it back home to long-stay expats involved with the development of ...

An interesting little bit of 19th Century Siamese/Thai history

Like Japan with its mid 19th Century Meiji Restoration the absolute rulers of Siam, in the same period, looked to the British Imperialists to modernise their country. Not all readers of Trip Advisor r...

Bangkok's History During the Colonial Era

I made my first visit to the Protestant cemetery recently even though I have lived in Bangkok for 25 years. I had read that the cemetery has been renovated and I was pleased to say that considerable c...

A peaceful place for those foreigners who made Bangkok their home

Located on the riverside on Charoenkrung Road . it is the final resting place of many foreigners who made Bangkok their home over the last 200 years including some of the founders of the old foreign t...