Достопримечательности около Southern Bus Terminal в Бангкоке

[Ninarado]

Добрый день!
Подскажите пожалуйста есть ли достопримечательности, которые можно посетить около Южного бас терминала.
Я первый раз в Таиланд собираюсь, куплены уже билеты. Направляюсь на остров Ко Панган. Получается, что неудачные билеты купила, прилетаю в Бангкок в 21-30, придется переночевать где-то в отельчике у автобусной станции. А утром, вроде бы как автобусы первые идут в 7 утра, еду до Южного бас терминала, чтобы купить комплексный билет на ночной бас+паром. Автобус едет 12 часов до Донсака, а оттуда 3 часа на пароме до Ко Пангана. Как я уже выяснила в расписании всего один рейс бас+паром через Донсак в 19-50.
Вот и получается, что мне надо будет купить билет, сдать багаж в камеру хранения в Южном бас терминале и день до 19-50 провести в осмотре достопримечательностей славного Бангкока. Но я боюсь засмотреться-загуляться, уехать куда-нибудь далеко и опоздать к автобусу. Подскажите, плиз, что можно успеть посмотреть за такой короткий срок и далеко не уезжая?
Приветствуются любые советы знатоков Бангкока и даже ссылки, если где-то уже такое было на форуме. (Но я честно искала, перечитывала, пользовалась поисковиком).

[Viachik]

Что за ерунда, гулять в окрестностях терминала, когда есть целый день?

Достопримечательности Бангкока с привязкой к метро (BTS/MRT)
Путеводитель по Бангкоку (ответы новичкам)

Ну и это лишним не будет

Southern Bus Terminal
The Southern Bus Terminal, also known as Sai Tai Taling Chan, this terminal serves all points west and south from its somewhat inconvenient location on the "wrong" side of the river. Note that in December 2007, the terminal moved to a new, even more remote location, at Phutthamonthon Soi 1 in the Taling Chan district.

The Southern Bus Terminal (Sai Tai Taling Chan สายใต้ตลิ่งชัน, tel. +66-2894 6122) is now located on Phutthamonthon Soi 1 in Bang Ramat, Taling Chan, northern Thonburi. Long-distance buses leave from here to destinations throughout western Thailand (including Nakhon Pathom and Kanchanaburi) and southern Thailand (including Krabi, Phuket, Surat Thani, Ko Samui, Ko Phangan, Hat Yai, and many others). The new terminal is a fairly pleasant airport-like structure with air-conditioning, electronic departure monitors (in English), a few bank offices and a KFC. Unlike Khao San Road's ripoff operators, all buses from here are public, well-regulated, cheap and reasonably safe, just buy your tickets at the numbered desk with your destination posted in it (almost always in English).

Getting to the terminal is a bit of headache, as public transport is limited. The easiest option is to take a taxi, but be sure the taxi knows where to go, or you may end up at the old "new" Southern Terminal (Sai Tai Mai), which only stopped operating in late 2008. The new one is located in the same direction, but 4.5 km further from the center (10 km from Khao San road area, about 15 km from Siam square or Silom, more if from Sukhumvit). If you're going there in the evening, especially during workdays, be prepared to a serious traffic jam - more than half or even full hour is not impossible. As always in Bangkok, use taxi meter only, which, from Khao San area, should end up around 120 baht in favorable traffic conditions and up. Ignore touts - the waiting time in taxi-meter is only 1 baht/minute, and there are really no "faster" way once all the roads out of the city are congested.

The terminal is reachable on buses 515 and 549 and from Suvarnabhumi Airport with bus 556. From Victory Monument (Victory Monument BTS station), take the pale orange air-con bus 515 (16 baht). When approached by an onboard bus attendant ticketer, just tell them "Sai Tai Taling Chan". The bus does not turn left or right all the way, the large bus terminal will be on the left side (you won't miss it and probably will be told as well) about 9 km after crossing the river. This way actually does not take much more time than taxi (it's almost same in the likely case of a traffic jam), but you'll end up much cheaper, especially if alone. There are also white "Metro" minibuses (30 baht) from various points around Bangkok, eg. Ramkhamhaeng road in Bang Kapi, Huamark, near the Rajamangala National Stadium. There are inexpensive shuttle buses and slightly more expensive (but quicker loading and a bit faster) minibuses from/to Mo Chit northern bus terminal also.

Another option, especially in traffic peak time,is to take the Underground train to the ultimate destination of Bang Sue. This puts you on the outskirts of the city, closer to the Bus Terminal. Outside, there are any number of taxis, and the fare will be about B200 as of May 2010. Ask for the "konsong tai" (ขนส่ง ใต้)