Krung Thep Maha Nakhon Trip Overview
Visit two of Bangkok’s top cultural attractions—the Damneon Saduak Floating Market and the Maeklong Railway Market—on this full-day tour from Bangkok. You’ll be able to immerse yourself in Thai culture and cuisine through guided commentary and tastes of the many Thai specialties available there. Food tastes include tom yum, mango sticky rice, tropical fruit, and coconut sugar candy.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, Thailand
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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Visit two of Bangkok’s top cultural attractions—the Damneon Saduak Floating Market and the Maeklong Railway Market—on this full-day tour from Bangkok. You’ll be able to immerse yourself in Thai culture and cuisine through guided commentary and tastes of the many Thai specialties available there. Food tastes include tom yum, mango sticky rice, tropical fruit, and coconut sugar candy.
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Stop At: Maeklong Railway Market (Talad Rom Hub), Si Champa Alley, Mae Klong 75000 Thailand
Maeklong Railway Market, nicknamed (Thai:Talat Rom Hup), meaning the “umbrella pull-down 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: 30 minutes
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 propitious ways of taking their agricultural products to the markets in neighboring 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 hundreds 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.
Duration: 1 hour
