Krung Thep Maha Nakhon Trip Overview
Take an unforgettable boat tour on a peaceful canal that weaves through Thailand’s picturesque countryside. Experience the lifestyle of locals who live and work on these interconnected waterways, and take in the daily bustle at Damnoen Saduak, popular floating market selling colorful handicrafts and fresh produce. 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.
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Duration: 7 hours
Starts: Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, Thailand
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Market Tours
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Take an unforgettable boat tour on a peaceful canal that weaves through Thailand’s picturesque countryside. Experience the lifestyle of locals who live and work on these interconnected waterways, and take in the daily bustle at Damnoen Saduak, popular floating market selling colorful handicrafts and fresh produce. 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.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Damnoun Saduak, Ratchaiburi, Damnoen Saduak 70130 Thailand
Damnoensaduak is believed to be one of a well-known and an attractive travelling sites. Historically, Damnoensaduak was actually the name of the canal dug in the reign of King Rama IV by the military men and the people of Rajburi, Samutsakorn and Samutsongkram Province directed by Phayasrisuriyawong, the minister of Defence. In those days without rivers and canals, transportation was almost motionless; King Rama IV with his great concern over the country’s future economic growth, he finally had the canal dug to connect the Taachin River in Samutsakorn Province and Maklong River in Samutsongkram Province together.
Nowadays 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.
• An old trading market filled with rich history & culture
• Unique sights of shopping on a floating boat & sampan
• Chance to take a leisurely boat ride around the market
• Countryside & scenic landscapes of Rachaburi Province
• Insight into lifestyle of locals who live & work on water
Itinerary :-
06:30 : Pick up from the various hotel.
07:00 : Depart Bangkok for Rachaburi province.
08:30 : Arrive the Boat Pier then enjoy the scenery of rural life by the long tail speed boat to the Floating Market.
09:00 : Arrive the Floating Market, almost untouched by the Modern World. You will enjoy watching the farmers selling food, fruits, flowers and many kind of local products in their boats.
10:30 : Optional tour to visit the Snake Farm or the Elephant riding or the paddle boat getting around the farmer village or free at leisure at market area.
12:00 : Depart for bangkok.
14:00 : Return to the hotel.
Duration: 4 hours
Stop At: Sun Leisure World Tour, Tours and Thailand Travel Package Tour., 17th floor Payatai Plaza, Phaya Thai Rd, Khwaeng Thung Phaya Thai, Khet Phaya Thai, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10140, Thailand
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Duration: 10 minutes
