Tokyoahead - Siam Ocean World, Bangkok

In central Bangkok, in the cellar of the Siam Paragon Shopping Mall, you will find the Siam Ocean World Aquarium. It is one of the best Aquariums in Asia, and being in the cellar of a mall also the most surprising one. It is really huge and has some features you would not expect down there.


I have seen the ,mall several times and there the signs to the Aquarium, but I assumed it to be some small thing for kids but not a full-blown, several floors deep well-maintained Aquarium with a quite wide variety of species.

Most ofthe tanks are quite big and give the animals inside a good place to swim around and be seen by the visitor. Since you can find all, from the most tiny ones such as Sea horses and Mandarin Gobies (center), various pipefish (left) to larger ones such as sharks, manta rays and huge fresh water fish, as well as Penguins, water rats and other species, you won' t get bored there.

While some of the species have their own tank, such as morays and some of the smaller species like striped eel catfish, you can find a really huge tank in the middle of the complex with an astounding wide array of fish.

Of course you can look also at the poisonous types here, such as stonefish, lionfish and jellyfish...

Rays can be found in the central, huge basin, which you can cross with a tunnel and even look on from the top through a glass-bottom boat. The sea turtle has its own basin and can be studied in detail. Also Nautilus shells, a relative to the octopus, can be found in a smaller tank.

Of course, the sharks should not be missed, you can even dive with them if you want (for a fee), but there are plenty in the main basin, and even a baby-shark tank is there, where you can touch them carefully. A truly unique experience!



A large number of tanks is only for freshwater fish. They have huge specimens one would not want to encounter while swimming....

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