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: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Market Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, Thailand
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
This is a typical itinerary for this product
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: Sight Seeing Bangkok, 293/116 Sukhnivat 2, Pracha Uthit 69, Pracha Uthit Road Bangmod, Thung Kru, Bangkok 10400 Thailand
Tour operator
Duration: 10 minutes
