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This is one of the oldest houses in Bangkok and the owner has built a scuba diving pool in the courtyard.

Built 230 years ago, So Heng Tai Mansion is an eighteenth-century Chinese house in the historic neighbourhood of Talat Noi in Bangkok the capital of Thailand.

The house was first built for running an export business of birds nests - a culinary delicacy - from Thailand to China in the early 1800s, while the city was being developed by early Chinese settlers.