Damnoen Saduak Floating Market and Bridge on The River Kwai Tour

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12 hours (approximately)
Pickup offered
Offered in: English

Meet a driver at your Bangkok hotel, then trade city streets for a landscape of salt fields and rice paddies. When you approach Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, among Thailand’s most vibrant marketplaces, board a longtail boat so you can go right into the midst of the market’s floating vendors. After you’ve explored the unique markets, which remain one of the top attractions in this region. You’ll return to your air-conditioned coach and head towards Kanchanaburi, where the River Kwai is located. The river’s famous bridge was built in 1943 as part of a wartime project intended to connect Thai and Burmese railways lines to support the Japanese occupation of Burma. More than 100,000 laborers and 12,000 prisoners of war died during the bridge’s construction. Following your time at the bridge, head to the JEATH War Museum to see displays of pictures and artifacts from the period.

What's Included

Boat trip at the Floating Markets
English speaking driver
Air-conditioned vehicle
Hotel pickup and drop off
Tips or Gratuities to guide and driver
Entrance ticket (if any)

Meeting and pickup

Pickup points
You can choose a pickup location at checkout (multiple pickup locations are available).
Pickup details:

Free of charge Door to Door Pick up for CITY CENTER BANGKOK DISTRICT AREA (3 KM radius area) with namely Sukhumvit Soi (Lane) -1 to 33, Sukhumvit area Soi 1 to 33 (odd) and Soi 2 to 24 (even), Pratunam, Silom, Langsuan, Wireless Road, Sathorn, Surawongse, Siam, MBK, Yawarat (China Town), Khao San Road (Excluded City Tour) can pick up only in our meeting Royal Rattanakosin Hotel You can also join our tours at BANGKOK MEETING POINTS - Our office, Sun Leisure World Corporation, Level 29 The Offices at Central World 999/9 Rama I Rd, Pathumwan Pathum Wan, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10330 Thailand An additional surcharge for hotel pickup outside 3 miles (5 km) radius from the city center is applicable and payable on the day of your activity.

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Meeting point
You can choose from multiple locations at checkout.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Duration: 12 hours (approximately)
  • 1

    Pick up from various hotels in Bangkok. Depart Bangkok. We will go to the Floating Market that is situated about 110 km West of Bangkok, on the way we will take a leisurely drive through some rice paddies and salt fields. See how sugar comes to be out of the palm after arriving at the jetty you can glide through the area in a long-tail boat on your way to see the Floating market and see the intricate small canals in the area. See all the different shapes and sizes of the boats and marvel at the variety of goods being sold. You can take a paddleboat along with the market for your optional choice. Now go to see the magic when a wonderful new shape comes out of the wood at the Carving factory.

    2 hours • Admission ticket included
  • 2

    Have a good relaxing lunch. Visit the war cemetery, where 6,982 prisoners of war lay buried after they perished while constructing the death railway.

    2 hours • Admission ticket included
  • 3

    JEATH War Museum, Kanchanaburi, Kanchanaburi Province Onward 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

    1 hour • Admission ticket not included
  • 4

    Walk over the internationally famous bridge over the River Kwai, the black iron bridge 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. Depart for Bangkok and arrive at the hotel around 18.30 hrs.

    1 hour • Admission ticket not included

Additional info

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Pickups at hotels outside the service area are subject to a surcharge. The operator will confirm the surcharge before your tour date. Please pay the driver in cash upon pickup.
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