Suan Pakkard Palace (Palace of Lettuce Garden) may be only one place in Thailand that visitors can see the royal relative's lifestyle in the past. Princess Chumpotpong Boriphat, the palace owner has granted the people to visit his palace since his royal highness resided here in 1952.

          In the large area of an tectar on Si Ayutthaya Rd compounds of 8 traditional Thai style houses. Visitors can sense all beauty of the completely Thai architectures. All stuffs inside are personal used of the owner. In addition, her intersting of history, she was an avid art collector and one of the country's most dedicated archaeologists - credited with having partly financed the excavations at Ban Chiang I in 1967. There is an entire room of objects from that site, including pottery and jewelry, surpassed only by the prehistoric finding exhibited at the National museum.

          Five 19th century teak houses were moved from Chiang Mai in 1952 and rebuilt in a beautiful landscaped garden on the private canal, separated by a high wall from the tumult of Bangkok's traffic. The Lacquer Pavillion (actually an Ayutthaya house, move here in 1958) was a birthday present from the prince to princess.

          The balance of collection is diverse, with Khmer sculpture, ivory boxes, perfume bottles, nielloware, marvelous prints by European artists depicting their image of Siamese people before the country opened to the Western world, a superb Buddha head from Ayutthaya, and a royal barge, Be sure to ask to see the pavilion housing the princess's collection of Thai and Chinese ceramics. It's exquisite.