Dragon Descendants Museum, Suphan Buri Province, Thailand

4.0 (55 reviews) Spent Ranking #4 in Suphan Buri Speciality Museums

Dragon Temple

On 14 Feb 2013, my Thai chinese friends drove me, my wife and daughter to Wat Mangkon (Dragon Temple) in Suphan Buri about 2 hours North of Bangkok. The massive colourful dragon houses a musuem of Chinese history and early chinese who migrated to Thailand. Entrance fee is required to enter museum. Rest of temple is free to roam around or to make prayer. Other buildings in the temple ground also have dragons on top of roofs and pillars. There is a huge carpark at rear of temple ground.
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Address

Malai Man Road, Suphan Buri 72000 Thailand

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Monday, May 13, 2024, 14:32

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4.0 based on (55 reviews)

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3David B 5:00 PM Oct 2, 2017
Unacceptable Dual Pricing
The Dragon Descendants Museum is contained in a huge fiberglass dragon that is 135 meters long, 35 meters high and 18 meters wide. I was looking forward to my visit until I found out that the entry fee for Thais is Baht 40 and for foreigners Baht 400. This is unacceptable discrimination and I refused to pay, so spent my time visiting the adjoining City Pillar Shrine, which is free. There has long been dual pricing in Thailand, but a few years ago if you could produce a work permit, or residential or retirement visit, you were permitted entry to government owned attractions like national parks, at the local rate. Then the government stopped that practice, and free enterprise attractions like the Dragon Descendants Museum were quick to hop on the bandwagon in pursuit of a quick dollar, not realizing how objectionable many tourists find this. Imagine a foreign couple with two kinds having to fork out Baht 1,200 for tickets.
3JamHam 5:00 PM Dec 31, 2022
Worth a Visit
We stopped on our way leaving town and found it a nice area with many small shops. Very well maintained and clean and worth the stop for about 1 hour. There is no charge unless you go inside the museum itself.