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Hundreds of tourists are converging at the shrine as well as the elevated walkway overlooking it to pray, make their offerings and just be photographed at the scene of the recent headlines.
BANGKOK – Less than 48 hours after the Aug 17 bomb blast at the Erawan shrine, one of Bangkok’s most popular tourist spots has reopened and become an even bigger tourist attraction. Hundreds of tourists are converging at the shrine as well as the elevated walkway overlooking it to pray, make their offerings and just be photographed at the scene of the recent headlines.
For those pondering cancelling a planned visit to Bangkok, take a look and think again.
If seeing is believing, these pictures, taken at around 1500 hrs on Aug 19, are proof that everything is back to normal. Really!
Sourse: Articles and photos courtesy of Mr Imtiaz Muqbil, Travel Impact Newswire
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Imtiaz Muqbil is the Bangkok-based executive editor of Travel Impact Newswire. Born in India, Muqbil lived for many years in the Middle East where he started his journalism career as a stringer for Newsweek magazine and McGraw-Hill World News. He moved to Bangkok in 1978 as a report/subeditor for the Bangkok Post and began covering travel & tourism in 1981, as Thailand Bureau Chief and Chief Correspondent, TTG Asia, PATA Travel News and associated publications (1981-1992). He wrote a weekly column, “Travel Monitor”, in the Bangkok Post between July 1992 – July 2012. Imtiaz Muqbil has conferred a 1997 PATA award for his reporting on the growth and development of Asia-Pacific tourism and another PATA award for coverage of the 1994 tsunami disaster. Between 2017-20, he edited and published The Olive Tree, the first and only publication designed to help Travel & Tourism meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
