It was so long and thanks for all the fish Tuesday at the site of one of Bangkok’s most peculiar, unofficial attractions.
Thousands of fish were removed from the basement of the abandoned New World Department Store near Khao Sarn Road, where they’d been happily swimming around for the past decade.
Long an off-the-map destination for urban explorers, the four-story building remained roofless after seven illegally built floors were removed and rain turned the the basement level into a kind of unnatural pond.
With the water came mosquitos. Lots of mosquitos, and eventually someone dropped some fish in the water. Those fish got busy and before long the basement had become an aquarium choked with thousands of exotic fish species.
As the building has grown older, concerns over its safety have increased. So officials from the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Center took about two days to catch all the fish – they said they’d be relocated – after which workers drained all the water before the building is set to be demolished.
Coconuts TV went to check out the end of this unique attraction.
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