Three beloved Thai landmarks land on TripAdvisor’s list of Asia’s top sites

Photo: TripAdvisor
Photo: TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor has just released their list of readers’ Top 25 sites to see in Asia and three of Thailand’s landmarks have earned prestigious places on the list.

The sites that made the 2017 Travelers’ Choice list are: Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha) in fourth place, the Grand Palace in ninth place, and Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha) in 14th place.

The rankings were gathered over 12 months using a combination of the quality and quantity of the places reviewed.

Here is the full list:

  1. Angkor Wat – Siem Reap, Cambodia
  2. Taj Mahal – Agra, India
  3. Great Wall at Mutianyu – Beijing, China
  4. Temple of the Reclining Buddha (Wat Pho) – Bangkok, Thailand
  5. Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine – Kyoto, Japan
  6. Petronas Twin Towers – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  7. Shwedagon Pagoda – Yangon, Myanmar
  8. Cu Chi Tunnels – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  9. The Grand Palace – Bangkok, Thailand
  10. Kinkakuji Temple – Kyoto, Japan
  11. Tian Tan Buddha (Big Buddha) – Hong Kong, China
  12. Amber Fort – Jaipur, India
  13. Marina Bay Sands Skypark – Singapore
  14. Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew) – Bangkok, Thailand
  15. Singapore Flyer – Singapore
  16. Swaminarayan Akshardham New Delhi, India
  17. Kiyomizu-dera Temple – Kyoto, Japan
  18. Choeung Ek Genocidal Center – Phnom Penh, Cambodia
  19. Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) – Beijing, China
  20.  Angkor Thom – Siem Reap, Cambodia
  21. Gyeongbokgung Palace – Seoul, South Korea
  22. Borobudur Temple –  Borobudur, Indonesi
  23. Temple of the Tooth (Sri Dalada Maligawa) – Kandy, Sri Lanka
  24. Ananda Temple –  Bagan, Myanmar
  25. Central Post Office – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam


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