Given Bangkok's hot weather and notorious traffic, planners built numerous bridges to keep people off street-level, with various entrances to the malls and hotels that line the street. Shielded from the sun but not from the heat, it was a welcome compromise to navigating the traffic-choked streets below.
From one of these bridges, the Erawan Shrine's crowds can be readily photographed. This Hindu shrine was built in response to a series of mishaps at the adjacent Grand Hyatt during construction in the 1950's. Today's shrine has been renovated following a religious attack in 2006 by a Muslim man.
Central World even has a shrine outside the mall entrance.
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