Damnoen Saduak Floating Market & Maeklong Railway Market Tour (SHA Plus)

Krung Thep Maha Nakhon Trip Overview

Experience Thai culture at the Damneon Saduak Floating Market. Discover the art of bartering the Thai way as you practice your trading skills with locals wearing wooden hats and selling tropical fruit, coconut sugar candy, mango sticky rice, and tom yum on their self-paddled small boats. Benefit from a small group size as you ride the train to the Maeklong Railway Market, uniquely situated on a working railway track. Get your adrenaline pumping as you shop along the Maeklong Railway Market before the next train comes through.
• Once-in-a-lifetime floating market experience
• Try delicious local treats and tasty seasonal fruits
• Quickly do your shopping at the thrilling Maeklong Railway Market
• Hassle-free hotel pickup and round-trip transport from Bangkok

Additional Info

Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, Thailand
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours



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Experience Thai culture at the Damneon Saduak Floating Market. Discover the art of bartering the Thai way as you practice your trading skills with locals wearing wooden hats and selling tropical fruit, coconut sugar candy, mango sticky rice, and tom yum on their self-paddled small boats. Benefit from a small group size as you ride the train to the Maeklong Railway Market, uniquely situated on a working railway track. Get your adrenaline pumping as you shop along the Maeklong Railway Market before the next train comes through.
• Once-in-a-lifetime floating market experience
• Try delicious local treats and tasty seasonal fruits
• Quickly do your shopping at the thrilling Maeklong Railway Market
• Hassle-free hotel pickup and round-trip transport from Bangkok

Itinerary
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Stop At: Maeklong Railway Market (Talad Rom Hub), Si Champa Alley, Mae Klong 75000 Thailand

The group will start at the pick up point by 6.00 am then drive to Maeklong Railway Market , nicknamed (Thai:Talat Rom Hup), meaning the “umbrella pulldown market”.It is one of the largest fresh seafood markets in Thailand, and is centered on the Maeklong Railway’s track. Whenever a train approaches, the awnings and shop fronts are moved back from the rails, to be replaced once the train has passed.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Damnoun Saduak, Ratchaiburi, Damnoen Saduak 70130 Thailand

Damnoensaduak is one of a provincial district of Rajburi Province. Most people live densely along both sides of the canal from one end of the canal to another.The majority of this people are agriculturists. They grow several different kinds of fruit and vegetable for examples oranges, grapes, papayas, cabbages, bean, onion and etc. The land in this area is naturally fertile. Apart from providing transportation, Damnoensaduak Canal also provides farmers with adequate water for agricultural purposes for the whole year around. More than 200 small canals were dug by local peasants to connect with it to get water to splatter their land. Moreover; these small canals also become protitiouus ways of taking their agricultural products to the markets in neighbouring provinces and Bangkok. Day in and day out from about 8 a.m. to about 11 a.m. the Floating Market is routinely crowded with hundrreds of vendors and purchasers floating in their small rowing boats selling and buying or exchanging their goods. What they purchase are particularly food, fruit and vegetable which mostly brought from their own orchards.

ITINERARY:

06:00 – Pick up from hotel

07:00 – Departure from Bangkok

08:40 – Arrive train market waiting the pass along market

09:15 – Continue to Floating market

10:00 – Arrive floating market and free time 1 hour (PADDAL BOAT OPTIONAL 150 BHT)

11:30 – Back to Bangkok

14:00 – Arrive in hotel

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Sunleisure World, Phayathai Road, Thung Phayathai, Ratchathewi, Phayathai Plaza No. 128/183 room 128/86 17th Floor., Bangkok 10400 Thailand

Tour operator

Duration: 10 minutes



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