230-years-old Giant Swing under renovation

By Thai PBS

 

 

The 21-metre high Giant Swing, a historic landmark in Bangkok, is now under renovation and closed to public for 300 days, according to the City Planning Department of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.

 

The next landmark scheduled to be closed for renovation after the Giant Swing is the Pom Mahakan or Mahakan Fortress.

 

Director of the BMA’s City Planning Department, Mr Sakchai Boonma, said the department had been allocated two million baht budget for the renovation.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/230-years-old-giant-swing-renovation/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-11-28

 

Sod the swing how about doing some maintenance on the roads.

i did not know that thai people had swings. i thought that it was the akha people that had swings.