Walk through the temple and hop on the two-baht river ferry to Ko Kret.
The main venue costs 300 baht while the smaller annex in the Old City costs 100 baht.
With the collapse of the Thai baht in mid-1997, the entire region entered an economic maelstrom.
The SET stock index is up 19% (total return in Thai baht) over the past year.
When the Thai baht crisis hit Southeast Asia in 1997 he switched his attention to China.
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The prop-up efforts were halted eventually and the baht fell 29% from January to March 1998.
Thailand, despite a recent bump up in the market following the baht devaluation, represents considerable risk.
The ride to Pakret takes slightly more than an hour and costs 35 baht.
And in any case the baht came under attack again after Mr Amnuay went.
Morgan offered them an interest-free funding scheme in return for swapping its baht for yen.
Eleven months after the crash of the Thai currency, the baht, wreckage keeps piling up.
Now, with the baht down to about 45, Hana's forward contracts have spared it further pain.
Tarrin has been universally lauded for stabilizing the baht and halting the slide into financial chaos.
The sale had been so big that it temporarily affected the value of the baht.
Other Asian currencies such as the Thai baht and the South Korean won are also undervalued.
No one could say that the devaluation of the baht came as a surprise.
Five successful groups are now renegotiating their prices, following the sharp devaluation in the Thai baht.
The baht has stabilized at 38 to the greenback compared to 55 in January.
It was the day after the Bank of Thailand had floated the baht.
In both cases, there was less than one baht worth of assets behind every three baht lent.
In Thailand, bottles of lotus flower extract are just a few baht, perfect for rejuvenating dry skin.
His company's market capitalisation has climbed from 2 billion baht in 1993 to 17 billion baht today.
Also getting noticed was a 15% rise this year of the Thai baht against the U.S. dollar.
Utmost importance will be placed on working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stabilize the baht.
For 13 years, the baht was firmly pegged to a basket of currencies dominated by the greenback.
These companies would now be paying up to 20% more in baht to service their foreign loans.
"I never believed that the baht was overvalued, " says Manu Bhaskaran of SocGen Crosby Securities in Singapore.
But for months the IMF recommended to officials (in two different administrations) that they devalue the baht.
The baht, which plunged as low as 56 to the dollar in 1998, has stabilized at 43.
Already, the Thai baht, Korean won, Malaysian ringgit, Singapore dollar and Philippine peso are under downward pressure again.
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