Colors of Damnoen Saduak from Bangkok

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Thailandbiking - Bangkok Branch

  We will pick you up from your Bangkok city hotel and start driving towards Damnoen Saduak for our adventure

  1 hour • Admission ticket included
• 2
  Mae Klong Railway Market (Hoop Rom Market)

  Rom Hub Market — better known as Talat Rom Hup, the "umbrella-pulldown" market — is that wild Thai experience where a real train runs straight through a working market in Samut Songkhram, roughly an hour from Bangkok. What you get: stalls piled with fresh seafood, vegetables, fruit and Thai desserts lining the tracks. Then a whistle, and vendors calmly fold their awnings and slide baskets back just inches from the rails as the train rolls past close enough to touch — before everything snaps back to normal seconds later. It happens several times a day; mornings are best, since things wind down in the afternoon. Snack on street food while you watch, and cool off at a café.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 3
  Wat Bang Khae Yai

  Very nice temple area near the river with a lot of ancient statues. A real buddhist temple with real practicing monks which you can feel if you are able to feel :) Anytime a go. From here we start cycling through the green orchards and along cocos-nut palms

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 4
  Wat Bang Kung

  Centuries old temple shrouded in the Roots of a Banyan tree. A sacred temple to Thai people and quite unique. All of the statues including the main buddha are adorned with gold leaf. Worth a visit if you are in the area.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 5
  Bangnoi Floating Market

  It's one of the oldest trading spots in the province, going back well over a century, when boats hauled coconuts, palm sugar, fruit and dried goods down the canal to the Mae Klong River. The market was later revived as a retro "old community" market, so the mood is deliberately nostalgic rather than commercial: weathered wooden shophouses leaning over the water, narrow walkways, old signs, a Chinese shrine, vintage barbershops and coffee corners. Food is the main draw — Thai desserts and khanom Thai, grilled seafood, noodles, guay jub, palm sugar sweets, traditional coffee. You'll find some vendors selling from small boats, but mostly you stroll the canal-side path. It's calm, local and photogenic in a quiet way: far fewer tour buses than Damnoen Saduak, more everyday Thai life than staged photo-op. It generally runs on weekends, morning to late afternoon — hours shift seasonally, so check locally before you go.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 6

  We start our Longtail Boat ride at Wat Prok Charoen, where the khlong practically boils with fish — throw in a handful of bread and a churning crowd of catfish and tilapia surges to the surface, mouths open. Then the longtail engine barks awake and you drop low into the water, puttering off past stilt houses, temple walls and coconut palms. The ride is a green ribbon of canal: morning glory farms, wooden footbridges, kids waving from decks, laundry drying over the water. Engine roar, spray on your face, the smell of wet wood and diesel. Twenty minutes or so, and the canal widens — then the noise doubles. Suddenly it's Damnoen Saduak: a traffic jam of narrow boats, vendors paddling noodles, mango sticky rice and coconut pancakes, hats and trinkets pushed at you from every side. Haggle gently, eat something, then let your driver thread you back into the quiet.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 7
  Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

  The floating market at Damnoen Saduak is the most famous floating market of Thailand and visited by many tourists.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 8
  Damnoen Saduak

  After we've visited the Floating Market we will sit down to relax and to enjoy a delicious Thai lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch it's time to head back to Bangkok. Normally we will be at your hotel around 16:00h.

  1 hour • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• 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
• The tour only operates with a minimum of 2 persons. Single travelers can join an existing group.
• Please provide full names and date of birth of all participants

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