Floating Market - Train Market - Flower Market and China Town
Description
Visit a variety of different markets outside Bangkok, experience the traditional way of buying and selling fruits and vegetables on the waterways, by the train tracks. Discover Bangkok's China Town and the biggest wholesale flower market in the city.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Your journey commences with a leisurely drive through rice paddies and salt fields. En route visit a farmhouse along the way and watch locals produce sugar from coconut. The tour continues with a 30 minutes longtail boat trip along a fruit plantation to see Thai houses and the traditional way of life. Arriving at Damnoen Saduak floating market, you will be fascinated by boats of various shapes and sizes used by local merchants to ferry their goods.
Continue to the Maeklong Railway Market. It is one of the largest fresh seafood markets in Thailand, and is centered around the track of the Maeklong Railway. When trains approach, the awnings and shopfronts are moved back from the rails and then replaced once the train has passed.
After lunch at a local restaurant, head back to Bangkok to visit the local market in bustling China Town where you will come across street markets, street side restaurants, shop houses, gold shops, beautiful remnants of colonial style architecture and some interesting Chinese temples, such as Leng Noi Yee. China Town is also famous for many varieties of food and it turns into Bangkok`s biggest open air restaurant at night.
Near the Chinatown is the biggest wholesale and retail fresh flower market in Bangkok. The market has all kinds of popular flowers and flora-related items, including roses, forget me nots, orchids, lilies and more. Most of them sold in packs of 50 or 100 flowers in each.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We pick-up from centrally located downtown hotels, if your hotel is not on the list simply advise us the hotel name by message and we will get back to you accordingly.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Reviews(5)
We got more than we expected in this tour. We hadn’t realized it was a private tour and our guide Alek provided us with a lot of information about the country and its history.
Exceptionally nice day, really interesting!. Our guide Kat was amazing, attentive, helpful and informative. We couldn’t say enough nice things about an incredibly nice lady!
I had a fantastic time traveling to the Market on the Water. My tour guide, Kat, spoke excellent English and spent all day with me, showing me the sights and sounds of Thailand outside of Bangkok.
This tour is very good if you want to see many attractions in one day! We visited the train market, a thai farm, we stopped (this is up to you, not included in the tour) at safari park to view and take photos with tigers and lions (but also riding elephants was available), then we enjoyed a trip on the river by typical thai long boat, we visited at floating market and had a good thai lunch there. We visited the flower market and china town. The guide Kate was gentle and amazing, she explained a lots of things with attention and patience. The transfer between attractions was made by a very comfortable and clean mini van. We really recommend this tour, good value for money and high quality.
Thank you for your feedback, we are happy that you had a wonderful time, hope to see you back again. Kind regards, Pitanu
Although the guide was really sweet and helpful, this tour is too touristy. You're taken to places where all the tourists go. It has an over-commercialised feel and you almost feel set up to spend. Unfortunately the train market is a popular tourist destination, and the floating market too. These were about the only worthwhile parts of the trip. However the lunch provided is at Riverside Bangkok, on a boat that is docked on the Chao Phraya River. It is really a sub-standard buffet. It would be better to eat in the market or at a place that is more personal. The flower market is just the same flowers over and over for use in ceremonies and for religious purposes. Overall this activity is over-priced for what you get and I feel that it could be better planned to avoid some of the disadvantages of a trip to tourist destinations.
