Discover Damnoen Saduak Floating Market and River Kwai with lunch from Bangkok

Discover Damnoen Saduak Floating Market and River Kwai with lunch from Bangkok

Experience Thais rural life and a charm of countryside at Damnoen Saduak Floating Market and visit historical sites in Kanchanaburi including the River Kwai

Visit: Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Damnoun Saduak, Ratchaiburi, Damnoen Saduak 70130 Thailand

Depart from Bangkok and depart southward to Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, situated in Ratchaburi province.
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is active every day. Arrive at the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market where you can see numerous vendors selling local foods, fruits and products on the rowing boats. You are free to explore the market around, shoot photographs/videos or hire a paddling boat along the canal to breathe the once-in-a-lifetime atmosphere of this legendary market.
The vendors, wearing traditional farmer dresses and hats, are mostly local peasants that bring in their things to sell on their rowing boats. On and along the canal, you can find delicious Thai food, wide variety of tropical fruits and vegetable and many colorful home-made products - A very pleasant scene to see and remember! You should not miss the opportunity to experience by yourself sitting and eating on one of these rowing boats on the canal.

Duration: 2 hours

Visit: River Kwai, Kanchanaburi Thailand

Learn about the construction of the Burma Railway, also known as the “Death Railway,” on this 10-hour historical tour to Kanchanaburi, approximately 80 miles (130 kilometers) west of Bangkok.

Upon arrival, you will tour the well-kept War Cemetery, where the graves of an estimated 9,000 Allied soldiers are tended. They perished while constructing the notorious "Death Railway,” which the Japanese had hoped would stretch all the way to the Burmese border.

Uncover the terrible history of the railway at the JEATH Museum, which takes its name from the first letters of the words Japan, England, America/Australia, Thailand and Holland. See the past recreated and relived with pictures and artefacts.

Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes