[LeoWindhorse]

these give some good background on the meaning of this place:
http://www.erawanbangkok.com/shrine.php
and
http://www.erawanbangkok.com/myth.php

[Central Scrutiniser]

Bangkok is always a transfer point for me, to Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia. I've seen the shrine but never paid much mind to it.

That is pretty close to the shanty town that I once walked through just down Sumkumvit past Wireless road.

Bangkok always amazes me, its so huge, but you never know what you will find around each corner.

[angkor]

A Thai worker measures the Hindu shrine of Brahma, which is draped in white sheets, after a statue within it was destroyed in central Bangkok.(AP)