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Bangkok hotels and travel - Bangkok
tourism information
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| Bangkok, a centre
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Khon
Mask
In Bangkok, you could get a wonderful experience
with many kinds of Thai Dramatic performances
like Khone Mask, the ancient dramatic performance
of the Masked Dance. Khone has been passed down
since the Sixth Century AD. Almost drama is from
the Ramayana, represents both good and bad sites
of human. The specialized of Khone is the mask
which all are in the exquisite of painting which
professional handmade in many charactors likes
Hanuman (monkey-a good site), Tosakan (ten faces
giant-a bad site) and more.
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Shadow Puppet
Another interesting performance is Hun Lakhon
Lek or traditional Thai Puppets show by Joes Louis
Theatre. Sakorn Yangkhaiwsod, more widely known
as Joe Loius is one of Thailand's top puppets
masters and he was recognized as a "National
Artist". Sakorn today is 78 years old and
still efforts to preserve traditional Thai puppetry.
The theatre seats an audience of 40, and visitors
could have a great chance to see the painstaking
process of crafting a Hua Khone also.
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Fantastic
Show
Enjoy many exciting show like a crocodie show at the
World's Largest Crocodie Farm at Samutprakarn is the
activities that you wouldn't miss. The farm located
10 km far from Bangkok. Here is more that 60,000 crocodies,
plus with more Acrobatic Elephant Stage Shows, where
the audience is invited to participate. Here is also
a Dinosaur Museum and Discovering Zoo you can join.
Another fantastic place is Dreams World at Rung Sit,
the place you can join many of funny activities likes
Sky Trains, Horrors House and more shows.
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