Dutch Settlement: From 1634 until 1767 the Dutch East India Company occupied this site on the eastern bank of the river. The Fine Arts Department has recently excavated the foundations of the factory and warehouses which were destroyed in the Burmese invasion of 1767. The site is still strewn with fragments of Japanese and Chinese Ming Dynasty crockery. As shore facilities are available from the adjacent Sricharoen Shipyard, you can spend the night at the very spot where sailing ships of the 'Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnei' (VOC) lay at anchor 400 years ago.
