On your next Thai Airways trip to Bangkok, meet enchantment at Siam Niramit (Siam meaning "the Enchanted Kingdom"), the Thai capital’s newest entertainment complex, now attracting thousands of tourists from all over the world.
Siam Niramit, billed as a world-class spectacular show, takes the viewer on a captivating 80-minute tour through Thai culture and history, uncovering the customs and treasures that have come down through the centuries and continue to fascinate present-day visitors.
Set right in the heart of Bangkok and easily accessible by street and underground, the complex boasts of having the world’s largest stage, the Ratchada Grand Theatre. Measuring 6.6 meters wide with 15-meter wings on either side, 40 meters deep, a proscenium four stories high and incorporating over 100 sets, many, 12 meters high. Such scale and quantity make it possible to present extremely elaborate, super-realistic scenes, enhanced by high-tech sensurround audio system. Thus the venue combines modern with classic theatre techniques and equipment to immerse the audience in the events unfolding onstage.
As for the show itself, over 150 trained actors and actresses perform in elaborately produced and historically accurate costumes amid stunning special effects, such as angels floating in the Paradise scene, an artificial rain curtain on stage, rice fields changing color according to season, krathongs floating on an on-stage lake. There are live elephants, magicians, aerial artists, acrobats, pyrotechnics, and a spiral stage-lift that elevates a scene before the audience’s very eyes. In aid of it all are amazing, almost instantaneous scene changes.
While utilizing the latest technology available, Siam Niramit also proudly boasts its core cultural fidelity. The show depicts Thai history, customs and civilization as they have transcended in time and is lavishly designed to truly enchant all viewers.
Outside the theatre, there is a Thai Village covering 5,600 sq.m. of the complex. Here, visitors may view traditional Thai lifestyles and activities such as cloth-weaving and pottery-making. For a taste of Thai cuisine, there is a 700-seat restaurant and, for shoppers, there are souvenir stores galore selling selected handicraft from all regions of Thailand.
Siam Naramit is located on Tiam Ruamit Road, near the Thailand Cultural Center. Tickets are 1,500 Baht (excluding dinner). Thai Airways’ Royal Orchid Holidays tour packages include Siam Niramit and other new fun destinations in Thailand.
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