Departure: Everyday
Duration: Fullday
Tour Code: BKKTour-41
Price per person: 1,800 Baht (Minimum 2 persons)
Thailand's floating markets are among the most-photographed destinations in the country. The river and 'klong' markets give a realistic glance of how daily life must have been in earlier times. The floating markets are where the sellers, their boats laden with a wide variety of tropical fruits, flowers, vegetables and fresh produce, come to meet and barter their products with other traders.
Internationally famous, thanks
the several motion pictures and books, the black iron bridge
was brought from Java by the Japanese supervision by Allied
prisoner-of-war labour as part of the Death Railway linking
Thailand with Burma. Still in use today, the bridge was the
target of frequent Allied bombing raids during World War II
and was rebuild after war ended.
TOUR ITINERARY:
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06.30-07.00 |
Pick up from various hotels in Bangkok.
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08.15 |
We will take you to the Floating Market at Damnernsaduak which is situated about 110 km. West of Bangkok, the journey commences with a leisurely drive by rice paddies and salt fields.
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09.30
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Now go to have a sweet time when you see one
of the local Palm sugar factories Ëhow it begins
and how it ends, you can taste the sugar and
use the oil to sooth your skin and learn much more.
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09.40 |
We will now proceed to the jetty where we board our famous Longtail boats, and slide over the various small canals on our way to the Floating Market. Where you can enjoy the variety of marchandise for sale as well as the amazingly different boats in all shapes and sizes.
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10.30 |
See magical shapes come alive out of the wood at the wood carving factory next on our visiting list.
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12.30
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Have a good relaxing lunch.
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13.30 |
On a more serious note we will now got to visit the War Cemetery, where 6.982 prisoners of war lay buried after they perished while constructing the death railway.
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13.45 |
Onwards to the Jeath War Museum, in the thatched
detention hut with cramped elevated Bamboo bunks
contains photographic, pictorial and physical
memorabilia from the second World War. |
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14.20 |
Walk over the internationally famous Bridge over the River KwaiŠthe black iron bridge was brought from Java by the Japanese army and reassembled under Japanese supervision by the allied prisoners of war labor as part of the railway linking Thailand to Myanmar.
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15.30 |
Depart for Bangkok.
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Include:
- Pick up at the hotel in Bangkok
downtown
- Sightseeing as described with transportation
- English-speaking guide
- Lunch
- Entrance fees
Remark:
- Pick up at hotels located outside
center heart of Bangkok will be charged extra for 200 baht per
person.
- e.g.
- Bangna Trad Rd.
- Ratchadapisek Rd.
- Rama IX Rd.
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