8AM Get up and into the saddle for an early morning bicycle tour with Amazing Bangkok Cyclist . Over a four hour ride , you ’ re taken on an eye-opening cruise through the backstreets of Bangkok , before catching a local longtail boat over to Bang Krachao , a heavily forested peninsula known as the city ’ s green lung . After spending time in unexpected nature , it ’ s back across the river for a peddle past towering skyscrapers .
12:30PM Having built up an appetite , make the short walk to one of Bangkok ’ s hottest yet relaxed eateries , Quince . Housed in a lovely family home built in the 1950s – when this part of town was considered the countryside – this unpretentious eatery serves up one of the best lunches in town : think Mediterraneaninspired dishes such as crispy pepper squid and organic roast chicken , made from Thailand-sourced ingredients .
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3PM With the temperature hotting up , head west for one of the city ’ s swankiest malls : Emquartier . As well as a range of highend stores such as Jimmy Choo , Prada and Valentino , there ’ s also mid-range options like H & M and Uniqlo , the city ’ s best bookstore Kinokuniya , an open air garden , five storey-tall waterfall , IMAX theatre , and a remarkable four floor dining area called the Helix that rises around a spiralling walkway .
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