Travel
Most of the tour packages around Bangkok offer a stop at Wat Arun, and it is an easy place to access by public transport. For the foreigners, the temple charges an entrance fee of 50 baht (as of September 2010). Wat Arun figures in one of Thailand's most colorful festivals, the Royal Kathin. The King travels down in a procession of royal barges to present new robes to the monks after their three-month lent period.
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