Krung Thep Maha Nakhon Trip Overview
Experience Thais rural life and a charm of countryside at Damnoen Saduak Floating Market and visit historical sites in Kanchanaburi including the Bridge over the River Kwai, Allied War Cemeteries. Cruise past boats piled high with fruits and handicrafts, stand on the famous bridge, learn about Thailand’s World War II history.
• Full day tour from Bangkok
• Travel on a longtail boat through the unique Damnoen Saduak Floating Markets
• Visit Kanchanaburi, home to the infamous Bridge on The Kwai River
• Enjoy lunch in a local restaurant
• English speaking local guide
• Hotel pickup and drop off from Bangkok City Hotels
Additional Info
Duration: 12 hours
Starts: Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, Thailand
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Market Tours
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Experience Thais rural life and a charm of countryside at Damnoen Saduak Floating Market and visit historical sites in Kanchanaburi including the Bridge over the River Kwai, Allied War Cemeteries. Cruise past boats piled high with fruits and handicrafts, stand on the famous bridge, learn about Thailand’s World War II history.
• Full day tour from Bangkok
• Travel on a longtail boat through the unique Damnoen Saduak Floating Markets
• Visit Kanchanaburi, home to the infamous Bridge on The Kwai River
• Enjoy lunch in a local restaurant
• English speaking local guide
• Hotel pickup and drop off from Bangkok City Hotels
Itinerary
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Stop At: Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Damnoun Saduak, Ratchaiburi, Damnoen Saduak 70130 Thailand
Meet a driver at your Bangkok hotel, then trade city streets for a landscape of salt fields and rice paddies. When you approach Damnoen Saduak Foating Market, among Thailand’s most vibrant marketplaces, board a longtail boat so you can go right into the midst of the market’s floating vendors.
After you’ve explored the unique markets, which remain one of the top attractions in this region. You’ll return to your air-conditioned coach and head towards Kanchanaburi, where the River Kwai is located. The river’s famous bridge was built in 1943 as part of a wartime project intended to connect Thai and Burmese railways lines to support Japanese occupation of Burma. More than 100,000 laborers and 12,000 prisoners of war died during the bridge’s construction.
Following your time at the bridge, head to the JEATH War Museum to see displays of pictures and artifacts from the period. After a full day of exploring the landscapes that lie beyond Bangkok city limits, this tour concludes with drop-off at your original departure point.
Itinerary :
• Pick up from various hotels in Bangkok.
• Depart Bangkok . We will go to the Floating Market that is situated about 110 k.m West of Bangkok, on the way we will take a leisurely drive through some rice paddies and salt fields. See how sugar comes to be-out of the palm After arriving at the jetty you can glide through the area in a long tail boat on your way to see the Floating market and see the intricate small canals in the area.
• See all the different shapes and sizes of he boats and marvel at the variety of goods being sold. You can take a paddle boat along the market for your optional choice. Now go to see the magic when a wonderful new shape comes out of the wood at the Carving factory.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 284/66 Sangchuto Rd, Kanchanaburi 71000 Thailand
• Have a good relaxing lunch.
• Visit war cemetery, where 6,982 prisoners of war lay buried after they perished while constructing the death railway.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: JEATH War Museum, Wat Chai Chumphon Ban Tai Subdistrict, Kanchanaburi 71000 Thailand
Onward to JEATH war museum, in the thatched detention hut with cramped elevated bamboo bunks contains photographic, pictorial and physical memorabilia from the second World War.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: River Kwai, Kanchanaburi Thailand
• Walk over the internationally famous bridge over the River Kwai, the black iron bridge from Java by the Japanese army and reassembled under Japanese supervision by the allied prisoners of war labor as part of the railway linking Thailand to Myanmar.
• Depart for Bangkok and arrive hotel around 18.30 hrs.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Sight Seeing Bangkok, 293/116 Sukhnivat 2, Pracha Uthit 69, Pracha Uthit Road Bangmod, Thung Kru, Bangkok 10400 Thailand
Tour operator
Duration: 10 minutes
