Isolated from the noise, crowds and concrete of Bangkok by a huge oxbow in the Chao Phraya River, Phra Phradaeng peninsula (aka Khung Bang Kachao) is an unlikely pocket of countryside surrounded by city. After crossing the river to Phra Phradaeng from Bangkok, one gets the sense of having discovered a secret place, a green anomaly that has somehow eluded the city's frenzy for development.