Visiting the Butterfly Garden and Insectarium in Bangkok

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Butterfly Garden and Insectarium in Bangkok Chatuchak Market

While visiting Bangkok, you might be looking for some other things to do other than shopping and see temples, a visit to the Butterfly and Insectarium Garden may be the option for you.

On your visit to Chatuchak Market you can take advantage and take a look at one of the most magical places in Bangkok. Around the busy JJ Market or Chatuchak Weekend Market, there are three parks and is inside one of them that is located the beautiful Butterfly Garden.

If you want to explore the weekend markets with a local, I recommend you this tour that will take you to a floating market and to Chatuchak Weekend Market. You can BOOK HERE and experience Bangkok with a local.

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They have written signs with the species names in Thai, English, and Latin. It is a beautiful place to spend the day and plan a picnic and even rent bikes for about 30 baths.

The park is beautiful and huge. I have really enjoyed walking inside them, there is a calm and silent atmosphere, and it is a pleasure to be in a place where nature grows almost wild, without much control in the middle of a city as developed as Bangkok.

chatuchak butterfly-7021 chatuchak butterfly-7015The Butterfly Garden in Bangkok is not too visited, same as the whole park, so there is nowhere to buy food or water inside it. Nor is kind of difficult to find proper signs to get to the Butterfly Garden, so I recommend you prior to your visit go and check either the map and your day there, so carrying water and something to eat if you plan to spend much of the day there it¡s a great idea.

Also, remind about sun protection, you’ll be exposed to the heat and sun several hours. Personally, it took me way longer than what I’ve planned to find it!

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The Butterfly Garden in Bangkok consists of a mainly outdoor area. You’ll find a dome that prevents the butterflies leaving the garden.

It is quite small but it houses about 500 butterflies inside and within it, you can see all stages of their growth.

There are not too many species of butterflies, but there are all certainly beautiful. If you’ve never seen butterflies eating from rotting fruit or flower pollen this may be your chance to see them.

It is one of the beautiful things that I have seen in this life.chatuchak butterfly-145242chatuchak butterfly-144434

Plus, you can watch the flight of these beautiful creatures in a controlled environment in which it is very easy for her to stand in the flowers or even on yourself! You can watch them taking a few sunbeams while they wait to continue their flight.

Although I dislike seeing animals in captivity, I like butterflies a lot, and in this place, they have plenty of room to fly and develop properly

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How to get there

If you go by BTS, go until the last Station of the Sukhumvit line, which is Mo Chit Station, the same you will use to visit the Chatuchak Weekend Market, but instead taking exit number one, this time you need to leave at the exit number 3.

Then, walk across the Chatuchak market until the Rofti Park. You can take the bus to Kamphaengphet 3 Road that will leave you in the park.

If you go from the Chatuchak Market or from the BTS or MRT, you will cross the wonderful park dedicated to the Queen Sirikit, the ” Queen Sirikit Gardens “, where you will find a magnificent botanical park.chatuchak butterfly-160906

Opening hours

From Tuesday to Sunday between 08:30 and 16:30

Address

Bangkok Butterfly Garden and InsectariumKamphaeng Phet 3 Road Rd, Chatuchak, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900 Thailand

Phones

+66 (0) 2272 4680 , 2272 4359

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Updated January 2019

Gloria Apara

Gloria Apara

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Having traveled through Asia, Europe, and South America, for the last 20 years, I have a wealth of travel knowledge and experience to share. NomadicChica.com was created to inspire others to travel and empower solo female travels with knowledge.

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