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Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating Market

A travel blog entry by goodrichodyssey

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We read in the travel book that in order to get good pictures at the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market you have to get there before 7:00am. So we hired a taxi to drive us the 2 hour trip starting at 5:00am in order to get there in time. Purchased a ticket ...

Floating Markets, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating Markets

A travel blog entry by myjob

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The Samnoen Saduak Floating Market is every sat/sun and is open from 7am-4pm. For the last 20 years the markets have moved away from a traditional farmers market towards tourism. Due  to modernization, roads, scooter etc the canal systems ...

This show is dangerous!, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

This show is dangerous!

A travel blog entry by chowie

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... And the elephant show was loads better. It started off slow, they used the elephants to narrate the history of elephants in Thailand. And then, they got onto the topic of elephant warfare. In traditional uniforms, they reenacted a battle where one side ...

Damnoen Saduak - Floating Markets, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Damnoen Saduak - Floating Markets

A travel blog entry by oliveramber

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Damnoen Saduak... home of the floating markets.  The realm of picture perfect postcards.  A vision of chaotic beauty.  Or, as we discovered, a total waste of time and money. First of all we had to get from Bangkok from which you have a ...

Bangkok Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Bangkok Floating Market

A travel blog entry by seetheworld123

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If u book a tour in Bangkok to visit a floating market, probably this is where you will be going. The Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, is about 100 km west of Bangkok. The floating market is no doubt a change of scenery from Bangkok flirting market ...

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED..., Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED...

A travel blog entry by jon_and_liz

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... was time to escape the pollution and head south. We managed the Thai bus system fairly well, and made our first stop at Damnoen Saduak for the floating market. Our impression was that although this was once an important part of life for the population ...

Floating market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating market

A travel blog entry by kate.leuschke

We went to this one-hotel town the night before so that we could get up early and see the market before the busloads of Bangkok tourists arrived. Sort of a challenge to find good dinner, but we made it, with the help of flexibility and 7-11. The market ...

Marche Flottant - Bangkok - Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Marche Flottant - Bangkok - Floating Market

A travel blog entry by france_rejean

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Marce flottant Floating market ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Salut tout le monde, Nous allons bien. La journee d'hier a ete super fatiguante. Ce n'etait pas vraiment prevue au ...

I'm gonna burn this goddam guidebook, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

I'm gonna burn this goddam guidebook

A travel blog entry by petef1

... Bangkok, the plan was to head west, so we decided to stop off en route at the much raved about floating market of Damnoen Saduak where the rowing boats of traders and shoppers alike bustle for position in between a mass of waterside stalls. The guidebook ...

melting point..., Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

melting point...

A travel blog entry by ian-sue

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yeah, it was reeeeally hot today. Got up early (first challenge of the day...) to catch the 507 bus to the southern bus station. Unfortunately nobody knew where the bus came from. After about a hour we jumped into a taxi that very comfortably drove ...

5. Wretched Tourist Excess and One Humongous Wat, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

5. Wretched Tourist Excess and One Humongous Wat

A travel blog entry by bahtman

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... It was built to commemorate the 1932 coup that marked the transition from absolute monarchy to constitutional, parliamentary rule in Thailand, and that actual, original constitution is housed in the pedestal in the middle. I'm not so sure coups are ...

Incredible Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Incredible Floating Market

A travel blog entry by margreet98

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... of choice!  We found a likely looking place and pointed to what we wanted.  This was definitely the hottest meal I ate in Thailand!  My lips burned for quite a while!  We arranged for the driver, Ari, to pick us up the next day ...

Floating market, tiger temple and death railway, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating market, tiger temple and death railway

A travel blog entry by katarina.beal

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Went on a one day tour to see the floating market, sit with the tigers at tiger temple and ride on the train on death railway to see the bridge over river ...

la linea Maha Chai (Lonely Soul). demon saduak, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

la linea Maha Chai (Lonely Soul). demon saduak

A travel blog entry by carlost

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... un bus hasta damnoen saduak por uno de los "paisajes mas pintorescos de toda thailandia". la gente encantadora conyo!   llego a Damnoen Saduak y se donde estoy, donde esta el Nok Noi y donde tengo el mapa: en mi cabeza. el viaje ha tenido ...

The Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

The Floating Market

A travel blog entry by ramrtw

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We had to leave at 6AM to take a 2-hour bus ride to the Floating Market. This was an awesome experience as it's literally a market on long boats in tight corridors through this small village. You can buy little widgets and other souvenirs but the coolest ...

Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating Market

A travel blog entry by diene

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... nicht wieder mit Taxigaunern und Busfahrern rumschlagen sondern werden im Minivan direkt nach Damnoen Saduak gefahren. Immer noch der groesste Floating Market in Thailand, frueher sicherlich wichtiger Umschlagplatz fuer die Einheimischen um ihre Wahren ...

DAMNOEN SADUAK FLOATING MARKET, DAMNOEN SADUAK, Thailand travel blog

DAMNOEN SADUAK FLOATING MARKET

A travel blog entry by ashes

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During one hot afternoon, i thought it would be a good idea to go check out the Floating Market. David agreed. The kind lady at the internet cafe told us which bus to catch and we caught it for 10baht each. Now these city buses here in Ratchaburi are ...

Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating Market

A travel blog entry by dan_emma2010

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Day 3. Today we went on a trip to the floating market which is located at Damnoen Saduak District, Ratchaburi Province. I'm sure you have all seen the pictures of the market as it is very touristy. We managed to get a paddle boat down the river and were ...

The Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

The Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

A travel blog entry by pashbee

The Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, is about 110 kms west of Bangkok, so it takes us a couple of hours to get there (more sleep time!).  The market is busy as we arrive and i soon get caught up in the excitement.  There are static ...

Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating Market

A travel blog entry by jef_smi

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... 's under King Rama IV (of The King and I fame).  We took an overnight trip here to see that hallmark spectacle of Thailand: the Floating Market.  We hired a longtail boat for an hour a little after dawn and cruised through the area's ...

Day 4 Floating market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Day 4 Floating market

A travel blog entry by nightsleper

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... . We werden om 6:30 opgehaald door prang en art. Vandaag gingen we de echte toerist uithalen. We gingen met een mini busje naar damnoen saduak. Dit is ongeveer anderhalf uur rijden vanuit bangkok. Af en toe nog stoppen om mensen op te pikken. Eenmaal daar ...

Floating markets & World War 2 Railways, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating markets & World War 2 Railways

A travel blog entry by ezandtreggas

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Day 9  Floating market and Grand Palace, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Day 9 Floating market and Grand Palace

A travel blog entry by mclark65

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I was offered a great deal yesterday by my cab driver, he would take me to the Damnoen Saduak floating market about 65 miles west of Bangkok and then bring me back to the Grand Palace. 20 quid?.. not bad i thought. And so he met me on the dot outside ...

Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating Market

A travel blog entry by georgegoode

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Today I had an early start to go and visit one of the iconic attractions in Thailand: a floating market. Damnoen Saduak is possibly the most famous (though, to be truthful, I'd never heard of it) and it’s about a two hour drive from Bangkok – ...

A Visit to the Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

A Visit to the Floating Market

A travel blog entry by dougs-trips

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We left early for the Damnoen Saduak Floating Markets, approx 60 miles SW of Bangkok. We arrived at 8am, just as the market was opening, climbed into a long-tailed boat, and set off through the canals. Because of the number of canals in and round the ...

Schwimmende Märkte, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Schwimmende Märkte

A travel blog entry by melindamorganti

Unser Weg in den Sueden sollte laut Lonely Planet lang und beschwerlich werden. Das wollten wir uns aber einfach nicht antuen und haben Tims Motto genutzt "Wir haben Zeit aber kein Geld" und einfach 2 Zwischenstopps eingeplant und konnten so mit dem ...

Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating Market

A travel blog entry by danandhat

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Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Thailand travel blog

Floating Market

A travel blog entry by mia.jauhonen

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On the way back to Bangkok we stopped at the floating market in Damnoen Saduak. ...

A Trip By Train And Four Years At Sea, Samut Sakhon, Thailand travel blog

A Trip By Train And Four Years At Sea

A travel blog entry by gpf

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We are always a bit concerned about following recommendations from the Rough Guides. Sometimes their views on what's good is a million miles from ours. One of the recommendations for a trip to an old Chinese fishing port was using "Amazing Bangkok ...

Floating Market Trip, Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Thailand travel blog

Floating Market Trip

A travel blog entry by cazilou

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Last night we visited Patpong Night Market. Slightly over rated - but glad we went all the same! Lots of people asking us if we wanted to see Ping Pong Shows or Go Go girl shows!!!! You can probably guess what the ping pong shows are! We didn't see one - ...

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