Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

Finally during my third visit in Bangkok I got to experience their so-called "floating market" and I chose to experience this on the largest floating market community. It's about 1.5-2 hours travel from Bangkok downtown. On this trip, we hired an airport cab for a day for not more than THB2000, we are a group of six people. We have been picked-up from our hotel at around 7am-7:15am since the floating market lasts only until noon time. On the site, we were dropped off to a boating wharf (actually there are a lot along the road). I forgot the exact prices but as far as I could remember we paid THB50 each for the entrance fee/environment fee plus THB300 per person for the boat. And the tour starts from here...

sometimes our ride gets tough and speedy so better hold on to your seats!

this is our first stop..it's a coconut factory where you could also buy some souvenirs

a lot of stores along you way, and boats too!

you may hail floating vendors and buy from them

I even saw some tourists eating their noodle soup on their boats, cool!

the busiest part of the market

this is the final stop of our tour, a temple (forgot the name of it though)

nothing much to see here except for some dancers practicing their craft

before hopping on your boat, try to feed the huge kois, you'll be amazed on how big they are

After the floating market, we planned on going to an elephant show but instead our driver took us to a different one - Elephant Village (only about 15 minutes from the wharf). Here we paid THB600 for an elephant ride which everyone of us enjoyed. It's only a 30 minute bumpy ride but worth the experience.

this is how high I am

they have made a village track with vegetations on the side for this ride

you'll even pass by a small body of water which scared the oldies

chained mother and child captive, kinda felt pity for them here

We were back in Bangkok downtown at around 2:30pm. Pretty cool and experience-packed half day for me!