Railway & Floating market Private Tour 1 Day
5/5
8 HOUR
ALL INCLUSIVE
PRIVATE TOUR
What to expect
Visit two famous markets in one day. Railway & Floating market is a full-day tour. With a journey of 1.5-2 hours each leg by a private transport from bangkok. In this tour, you will be visiting 4 venues as follows:
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Damneon floating market
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Mae Khlong Railway Train market
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Coconut plantation
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Hidden tree temple
Not just the floating and train markets, this all inclusive your takes you into the world of coconut farming. Here you might get to try your hand at a little bit of coconut extraction.
The hidden tree temple with a history attached. Re Discovered with a collapsed roof and wrapped around by a tree, renovation was ordered and the tree left in place where slowly it has engulfed the temple.
This is the floating market tour that covers MORE.
A fully inclusive , 4 venue tour.
Tour duration
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Pick-up from your hotel at 06:45 am at the lobby (Pick-up time can't be changed as the train timing is fixed schedule and the floating market is shut after 12:00)
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Drop-off at your hotel about 14:30-15:30
Itinerary
06:45
Private pickup from your hotel with private aircon van and depart from Bangkok.
09:00
Arrive at the railway market, about two hours from Bangkok. Vendors set up their goods along active railway tracks, with fresh seafood and cooking supplies are all lined up a mere few inches from the track’s edge (and in some cases, right on top of the tracks). Once the train leaves, business resumes as though nothing had disrupted them! Between the train schedule, your guide will lead you around the market and introduce you to traditional Thai foods, from desserts to snacks to fresh fruits.
11:00
Arrive at Damnoen Saduak floating market, one of the most popular sites to see in Thailand, and for good reason! Some call this area the Venice of the East, where vendors sell their goods from boats and stalls set up along the water’s edge of this unique market. We’ll board a small boat for a ride through narrow village canals, to reach the famous floating market of Damnoen Saduak. You will get to watch local life along the water while riding a wooden long-tail boat.
13:00
Enjoy Thai Style Lunch at a canal side, relaxing vibe Thai restaurant. If you have any food allergies, please inform the guide in advance.
14:00
Board on the van back to Bangkok
16:00
Drop you off at hotel safely with unforgettable memories.
Tour Cost
FROM BANGKOK
8,250 THB for two persons
Extra person +750 THB/person
What's included?
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Private lair-con van with driver
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Khanom's pro-licensed,english-speaking guide
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Boat fees
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Lunch at a local Thai restaurant (Thai food, seasonal fruits), drinking water
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Hotel pick-up and drop-off
Facts About Floating market
What does James bond need when in Thailand? A great place to film and Damnoen saduak fitted the bill. “The man with the golden gun” along with Nicholas cage in Bangkok dangerous had parts here. Located about 90 mins outside Bangkok in Ratchaburi province these markets go back to 1868. Some 200 canals once surrounded the 32km stretch of water made to connect Mae Klong and Tha Chin rivers. Out of all the floating and riverside markets Damneon is the busiest.
Care and caution is the keyword when looking to go here. People are still being caught by the misinformation on getting to these markets. It may seem like tours here are not cheap and thats true. They are cheaper though than getting caught out by the taxi/longboat collaboration. You see the tour prices so think its DIY time instead. Grabbing a taxi you agree a price and will book your own boat when you get there. All good.
Until you are back in the taxi on the way home wondering how you spent more than the tour cost. Maybe even why the market was small and empty.
There are a few piers in the area and also this stretch of canal has a few smaller markets dotted around. Your taxi has taken you to a pier where the boat fee’s make your eyes water, you bargain down from 5,000 baht or more to 3,000 baht or more and feel you got a great deal. You then ride around a few empty canals and head through some small rural area’s.
You have just been introduced to the overpricing that gives this market a reputation for scams.
In fact the real pier, or the pier of repute is much more centrally located almost within the market itself. Tour operators have contracts with the services here (our vendor even kept life jackets solely for us), so you are getting the real deal. These markets are a fantastic experience but only if you take the right precautions.
A tour gives you so much more than a taxi and a Long tail.
We include guides trained and working these markets on a day to day basis. Transport, boat fee’s, lunch and an experience that was enthralling.
We advise on the way around and help to navigate the market, our guides are in the boat with you. Not sitting in a car park.
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