Ruenya Home Stay Ratchaburi

... as a borderline.Ratchaburi occupies an area of 5,196 square kilometres and is administratively divided into nine districts: Muang Ratchaburi, Photharam, Damnoen Saduak, Pak Tho, Chom Bueng, Bang Phae, Wat Phleng , Suan Phueng, and Ban Pong, and one sub-district: King Amphoe Ban Kha.

... to a paddle boat (150) for 1.5 hours around the market. It is meant to be Thailand's biggest floating market but ... The book warns that you should go early to see the market in full flight before the tourist around, I guess that's us. When we were there it was mainly souvenir stalls with a few food stalls. There were boats ...

... that's got no less than ten (10) tour buses parked out front and the main attraction is souvenir vendors, you'd be better off just continuing on down the road. Not that I'm complaining - I'm here to immerse myself in Thailand both good and not-so-good, authentic and cheesy alike, and I certainly appreciate Tohn and Naya going to the effort and expense of driving us here. Just call this one a "lesson learned" and take it as a ...

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 part of it for us was that we ate lunch through going to different ...

... several newly raised buildings. After that I called at the department which used to cover my project and met some of the teachers I knew. They did not speak any english so we just gesticulated to keep a basic communication. By one of the teachers I had lunch with I was invited to spend the evening and to stay overnight at her house with her family in Ratchaburi. That was a really nice two-floor detached house made of brick in a quiet ...

... http://thanicha.com/ - click on the English button, then look at the Gallery section for photos. Tomorrow - we are returning to Bangkok to return the rental car. Because we took longer to drive down from Chiang Mai than anticipated (due to us enjoying the places we stayed so much), we have now decided to forego the long drive down to Southern Thailand. Instead we will be flying to Krabi for a night, then moving on to start the 'island-hopping' phase of our trip.

... at our hotel (the only one in our guidebook) and we had no problem getting a room as no one was around! Walking around town we managed to find another couple from Ireland so we had a few drinks by the roadside - a little shop run by a sweet lady. We ate at one of the night stalls (so cheap - 40p each for our food) and chatted for ages exchanging travelling stories. SB: Our morning call was very early and we ...

... Fame building and right before entering into the second zone, there are amazing and difficult-to-find-one trees in which a sugar palm tree surrounded by a bo tree, the tree the lord Buddha enlightened. The second zone is called the Terrace of Buddha Image of Three Periods. The Buddha images reproduced from historical parks from three different periods, Ayutthaya , Sukhothai and Chiang Saen also known as Lanna. This zone gives an opportunity to explore three historical park in three ...

... and it felt like we were in the boat for 15 minutes and not the 30 we were supposed to get. The rest of the market was also somewhat disappointed. It was full of overpriced tourist 'kitsch'. The vendors there were also not very willing to negotiate prices and were severely unreasonable in some cases. I left with only two 'fan-hats' (these things that open up into fans and then turn into hats when you fully open them, they are kinda cool). On ...

... served some Isaan food. We drove to a temple a long the river where you could feed the fish in the river. It was awesome! There were so many fish there in the river. Close to there was a big Catholic church. There was actually a wedding being there that day and the reception was going on outside the church. We left Ratchaburi and drove back to Bangkok.