Embassies of Bangkok
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The Belarus and Nicragua honorary consulates. Both are at the same address, so i think that the same person does both.
France Embassy
The above three pictures are of the Portugal Embassy. The first two are the "front" of the embassy. For the third picture, I happened to be at a shopping mall on the other side of the river and noticed I could see the Portugal Embassy so took a picture of the "back" side.
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Okay, these next two were a real "pain" to find. When I first started trying to visit the embassys/constulates, I was just going off the internet or trusting the Maps function where it said there was an embassy/consulate (and sometimes was quite wrong (for example (I think) consulate of Georgia)))..
Anyway, I finally talked to a contact in MOFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) in Bangkok, and they gave me a list (as of Feb 2024) of every accredited embassay/consulate in Thailand and their "official" address. It is a bit more accurate.
The first two pictures are of the honorary consulate of The Gambia. Addresses in BKK don't always follow a normal address pattern like in the US, it was quite a lot of walking around the general area before I found it. It was this past Sunday, so the "consulate" was not open. Obviously, it must an ethnic Chinese person, so it would have been interesting to talk to him and understand how he came into the position. I am guessing he is some sort of import/export. The Chinese writing in the second picture is basically just the name of the company as shown in English.
The next two are "supposed" to be the location of the honorary consul of the Republic of Guinea. I am 99% sure the address is correct, but it obviously does not seem like it is the right location, or maybe the consulate went out of business. LOL. But, I am still going to count it as a visit!
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Cool thread idea!
What makes embassys so interesting to you that you spend all that time visiting them, @taiwan_girl ?
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Cool thread idea!
What makes embassys so interesting to you that you spend all that time visiting them, @taiwan_girl ?
@Klaus Good question!! Gives me a chance to see different parts of Bangkok, and just curiosity about them, and a chance to spy on people in the embassy if possible. (just joking on that last part!!!!!)
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The next three are the Russia Embassy
Main Entrance
Side Door
Apartment block for workers (I assume)The next are Republic of Bahrain
Building Location
Signboard
Entrance
EntranceKind of funny. It was Sunday, so I knew they would be closed but did my usual "act like I belong" as I walked past the guard desk. However, when I took the lift back down, there were two guards at the lift door asking me what I was doing.
I explained that I thought the embassy may be open because it was an Arab country and they used different days of the week.Below is Canada
Again, it was a Sunday, so could not get up to the actual embassy. Not sure if I count this an official visit or not. LOLBelow is Bulgaria
This is an honorary embassey/consulate and is actually run out of a company office. I walked into the lobby and wanted to go to visit, and just at that moment, when I was talking to the guard, the honorary consul walked in the lobby!! The guard called her over and she was very nice and just talked to me in the lobby and I did not have an excuse to go up to the office. LOLRumania is below
Building location
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Building of the Honorary Consul of Benin
Company office where the honorary consul is located
The above two pictures are the location of the honorary consul of Ivory Coast. It is in somebodys house. -
Hallway leading to Brasil embassy
Entrance to Brasil embassyThey were quite nice and friendly there. They saw me standing out in the hall and invited me in so I had to make up some questions as to why I was there. LOL
Hallway leading to Embassy of Panama
Entrance to Embassy
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Interesting pics, TG! Would be cool to have an honorary embassy in my house. I guess it doesn't enjoy the diplomatic immunity of a real embassy though.
@Horace Great minds think alike. I have thought the same thing. Find some obscure country and offer to be their consul. LOL
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I got to know, in a professional and over time, social capacity, the local Honorary Consul for a European country which is now a EU member state. At that time it was not an EU member. The position has few perks, minimal prestige and actually incurs a lot of unanticipated out of pocket costs in the faint hope of a meagre commission or finder’s fee on some small business transaction. Any big commercial deal has agents fully engaged and embedded well in advance of any negotiations. Not worth it. No thanks.
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Embassy of Spain
They were quite nice to talk with me in there.
Embassy of Chile
Office Tower of Spain and Chile Embassy
Honorary Consulate of Burkina Faso. I was not able to get into the building on the day I was there
Consulate of Syria. I believe the main embassy for this area is in Beijing. I am 99% sure this the correct location, but they obviously look like they went out of business. LOL
Building location of Syria Embassy
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Some more
Consul General of Papua New Guinea. It is located as part of a company office. They were quite nice in there to me. Gave me all kinds of tourism information on the country.
Building where the Consul General is located.
Embassy of India. Doing a lot of road construction on the road in front of the embassy.
Embassy of Sri Lanka. Also quite nice to me. Met a Sri Lanka guy there who was working in Thailand who needed to talk to the embassy. He liked to talk and told me a lot about the country. LOL
Building where Sri Lanka embassy is located. Also in the same building is Embassy of Israel. But there was ALOT of security for there, and I was kind of afraid to make up story to try to get to the Israel embassy. So, I kind of chicken out to go there. 555
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Embassy of Pakistan
The above two are the street in front of the Pakistan Embassy
Hallway leading to the Consulate of Cyprus
If you look closely, you can see them listed. It appears to be just a "co-work" space so dont really know how active or available they are. I am guess it is a honorary consulate.
Building where the Cyprus consulate is at.
Above is the building with the Liberia Consulate. This is also a honorary consul. Building was gated and it was a Sunday, so I could not get inside to "check it out"
