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The first statue that comes into sight is a huge pink colored image of a Reclining Ganesha, measuring 22 meters long and 16 meters high. Ganesha is depicted with an elephant head with two tusks, one of which is broken off. The image has four arms.
The Erawan Museum is about 25km southeast of the main part of Bangkok by the Grand Palace, so we combined it with a few other activities and hired a Grab driver for the day. That worked out really nicely. The three-headed elephant is GIANT, and it stands on a tall plinth, so you can see if from a good distance away. 400 Baht to get in.
5 Mac 2016 · This statue of three, three-headed, pink elephants is in the center of a roundabout on Sanam Luang Junction near the Grand Palace. It was erected on December...
8 Nov 2018 · The topic in Thailand and abroad over the past few years is the temple Wat Saman Rattanaeram, a pink Ganesha settled in Chatunsao Province, about 90 km away from Bangkok. When praying to a pink Ganesha of height 16m, width 22m, it is said that it will fulfill wishes at 3 times faster, and many visiting worshipers came to visit.
15 Nov 2022 · Bangkok's famous giant elephant, the Erawan Museum makes it to No. 15 on our Top 25 Things to do in Bangkok series. Learn about the history of this place an...
The Erawan Museum houses one of Thailand’s most exquisite private art collections while simultaneously serving as a visual representation of the three-tiered cosmology of Thailand’s Theravada Buddhism: the underworld, the human world and the heavens.
11 Apr 2015 · It’s a copper and steel construction built in the shape of a three headed elephant, mounted majestically on a pastel pink pedestal. Erawan aka Airavata, the elephant god served as the god Indra’s mount on his travels to the heavens and on earth where he observed the varying fortunes of mankind.
