Highlight in our tour programs
• Private transfer with private tour guide and journey to Ratchaburi Province (100 km from Bangkok)
• Take a narrow long tailed speedboat ride through many small canals towards the center of the market
• Walk around amongst the busy stalls, enjoy your bargaining skill and feel fun on that
• There is plenty of tasty food to try along the docks
• Visit coconut sugar farm
• 10.00: Leave Floating Market to Kanchanaburi (170 kms /2.30 hours)
• Lunch at local restaurant
• Board the original Death Railway train passing the death curving bridge, which has built from wooden logs by the prisoners of the World War II aside beauty landscape.
• Arrive at Tham Krasae Train Station
• Walking on the dangerous curve railway bridge surrounded with steep mountains and bordered by the Kwai Noi River which is the 400 meter long through mountains and about 10 meters higher than the river
• On road from Tham Krasae to Bridge on the River Kwai (77 km /1 hour journey)
• Visit the world-famous Bridge over the River Kwai, a part of Death Railway
• Leave Kanchanaburi
• Arrive Bangkok and transfer to hotel
General Information
- Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
Out from Bangkok, there is a floating market that becomes one of the Thailand’s most famous attractions, Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, 100 km west from Bangkok in Ratchaburi Province. In the past, daily commerce in Thailand was conducted mostly along rivers and canals. Every morning, boat venders will cramp in Damnoen Saduak Canal to sell product from their plantations that varies from fruits to vegetables. Now the product is more varieties as there are many visitors visit here every day.
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is one of the oldest floating markets and has become a very popular tourist destination for both Thais and foreign tourists, travel here to shop, eat, and enjoy the atmosphere of Thailand’s water markets. It is unique and attractive.
Damnoen Saduak Canal was excavated and it took 2 years from the end of King Rama IV and completed the beginning of the reign of King Rama V with a length of about 32 kilometers to link the Mae Klong River with Tha Chin River to support transportation and trade. There is a small alley separated by about 200 canals. It was one of the most commercial and crowded canals in the past and remained active until 1967 when the development of roads replaced the need for water transportation. In 1971, Tourism Authority of Thailand has promoted to a tourist attraction. The market had boat vendors and shops on the canal banks when the river was full of farmers on their boats selling their wares that comes directly from farms and that is the way of trading in this area until today.
Discover Damnoen Saduak Floating Market offers a unique culinary experience. You will enjoy the scenery of rural life by the long tail speed boat to the center of floating market. We provide a private tour that you can experience the lifestyle of the people along the canal very closely.
At the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market can be divided into on land and in canals offers a unique culinary experience. Watching the wooden paddle boat vendors selling food, fruits, flowers and many kinds of local products in their boats you’ll also find traditional Thai food that you won’t find anywhere else. You can find both in the small stalls and
aboard the vendors floating crafts a tasty local product on offer includes mini coconut pancakes, boat noodles cooked in a rich, meaty broth and delicious coconut ice cream.
Inside the floating market, there are many foods, utensils and souvenirs. including handicrafts various handmade to choose to buy, choose to shop. You will be persuaded to buy things so let’s practicing your bargaining skill, feel fun on that, it’s definitely one of the atmospheres that you can’t find in your daily life.
The floating market is routinely crowded with hundreds of vendors and purchases floating in their small rowing boats, selling and buying agriculture products and local foods which are mostly bought from their own nearby orchards. Therefore, it is an attractive place for tourists to see the old style and traditional way of selling and buying goods.
Before the COVID- 19, Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is full with tourists. Nowadays even somethings have changed but it’s still the way of life of people in this area for those who want to get a canal atmosphere and rowboat trading and food from the local vendors the overall atmosphere of tourism at Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is still interesting and worth visiting.
• River Kwai
It was said it was impossible to build a railway link between Thailand and Burma. The Japanese, during the second world war did it anyhow, by using thousands of war prisoners as forced labor in unimaginably bad conditions, just to be demolished by allied bombing short after.
The tour takes you to the well-known attraction of Kanchanaburi, the Bridge on the River Kwai is part of the infamous Death Railway, spanning over Kwai Yai River, built by the prisoners of the World War II under the supervision of Japanese Imperialism Army.
The 415-kilometer railway was built to connect Thailand and Myanmar to secure supplies to the Japanese army during their Greater East-Asian War. It is called the Death Railway as it involved the death of too many people during the construction period, between September 16, 1942 and on 25 December 1943 when it completed. It is estimated that more than 16,000 war prisoners (POWs) from England, Australia, Holland and America, together with some 90,000 labors from Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia and Indonesia, died during the construction.
To build the railway, the Japanese and Thai used thousands of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) as well as hundreds of thousands of Romusha (indigenous contract laborers) from Burma, Malaya, Java, and other conquered nations as a labor force. Construction began in October 1942 and within a few months the Imperial General Command in Tokyo, anxious to complete the project, moved up the completion date to October 1943. This acceleration was known as “the Speedo” and it was during this time that the Thailand-Burma railway earned its nickname: the “death” railway.
There are a lot of stories to tell, come and discover by yourself with us; Click Thailand… our tour guide will happy to tell…
Dress suggests for this tour
Casual outfits suitable for walking and get in-get off the boat
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