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Don Muang Area Map - Bangkok Maps
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Muang, about 25 kilometers north of the city center, is generally a trouble-free
experience, though Thailand's popularity as a tourist destination can
mean congestion at immigration counters - a foretaste of what the visitor
will experience on Bangkok's grid-locked roads. Baggage handling is fairly
fast and efficient. Passengers usually find their bags waiting once they
come out of immigration.
Don Muang airport, as it's commonly known, handles 160,000 flights, 25
million passengers and 170,000 tons of cargo a year, way above its designed
capacity. Since its construction in the 1920s, the airfield has grown
to be one of Asia's busiest crossroads. Two large, airy international
passenger terminals plus a domestic terminal are strung out north to south
along the east side of Vibhavadi Rangsit Road. Relief for the bottlenecks
at immigration will be provided by the new Nong Ngu Hao airport emerging
from paddyfields and cobra-snake swamps on Bangkok's nondescript eastern
fringe.
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