RiderLog185 places, 9 rides
Explore Bangkok's hidden layer by scooter
Tourist Bangkok is one temple, one mall and one rooftop bar. The real city is the layer underneath, and every pin on this map is a place we actually rode to.
Sorted into rides
Execution-site murals, canal shrines, 80-year curry alleys, roasters hidden in shophouses, and bridges where the sunset belongs to locals. Pick a collection and ride it in an afternoon.
Hidden Bangkok Temples
Lesser-known temples of Bangkok and Thonburi. Strange histories, murals, and quiet courtyards far from the tour buses.
Bangkok Cafes and Sweets
Specialty roasters, hidden shophouse cafes, and dessert stops worth riding across town for.
Bangkok Eats
Old-town food worth riding for. 80-year curry alleys, dawn markets, crab fried rice, and dinner terraces facing Wat Arun.
Bangkok Sunsets
Bridges, riverside parks, rooftops and coastal viewpoints for ending a ride with the best light in the city.
Streets and Markets
Old quarters, markets, shrines and creative spaces of the real Bangkok, heavy on hidden gems.
Green Bangkok
Parks, canals and green escapes inside and around the city.
Design and Garden Cafes
Cafes worth riding to for the building or the greenery: flower-swallowed shophouses, a 101-year-old Chinatown coffee room, glass-house townhouses and tropical garden rooms.
Temples Beyond the City
Short rides out of Bangkok. Mon river communities, a leaning prang, a Buddha in sunglasses, and coastal heritage reached through mangroves.
Day Trips from Bangkok
Destinations beyond the city. Historical parks, beaches and temples that make a full day's ride.
Sorted into loops
Five orders we actually ride these stops in, with the distance between each one. Park once and walk a coffee street, or take half a day down the west bank.
Old Town Morning Loop
Rattanakosin before the tour buses: a dawn market, a 60-year breakfast counter, the marble-and-mosaic temple most visitors ride straight past, and the flower market while it still smells of jasmine.
Chinatown Food Loop
Talat Noi at golden hour, then the Yaowarat food block: roll noodles, a curry stall under a bridge, fried oysters, and a rooftop over the river to finish.
Song Wat Coffee Crawl
The densest coffee street in Bangkok: seven roasters, a 101-year-old bakery and a street-art wall, all on one riverside lane.
Thonburi Riverside Temples
The west bank end to end: a porcelain prang, the bell temple, a mural hall older than the city's grid, a floating market in a canal, and the glass stupa at Wat Paknam.
Green Lung Sunset Loop
Bang Kachao's raised jungle paths, a botanical garden, the weekend floating market, and two bridges that hold the last of the light over the river.
Sorted into neighbourhoods
The same pins grouped by where they are, because the question on the bike is not which collection a place belongs to, it is what else is within five minutes of here.
Chinatown and Talat Noi
Two blocks that reward a scooter more than anywhere else in Bangkok.
Thonburi and the West Bank
Cross a bridge and the city drops a gear.
Rattanakosin Old Town
The royal island, Grand Palace to Thewet, with the flower market at one end and Khao San at the other.
Bang Rak and the Riverside
Charoen Krung and the Chao Phraya, from the Bang Rak congee counters down to the Rama III bridges.
Silom, Lumphini and Siam
The business spine, from Silom up through Lumphini and Ratchadamri to Siam Square.
Sukhumvit and the Parks
Sukhumvit gets written off as expat Bangkok, which misses the two biggest parks in the centre and some of the most serious coffee in the country.
Phra Pradaeng and Bang Kachao
The green lung: a jungle peninsula inside the Chao Phraya's biggest bend, twenty minutes from Sathorn and about forty years behind it.
Samut Prakan and the River Mouth
Where the Chao Phraya finally reaches the sea, an hour south of the old town.
East Bangkok
Srinagarindra out to Bang Kapi and Lat Krabang, the half of the city visitors never see and residents ride through daily.
Why there are no stars on this map
Every other map ranks a place by a star average that a bored crowd, a review farm and one bad Tuesday all get a vote in. This map ranks nothing. A pin is here because a rider rode to it and checked in, and the lists come from riders you can actually name. No star ratings to game, no sponsored pins, ever.
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