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 boats and seeing what the...

ok ayer no llego a ser un ****ing day del todo, se quedo en un chill day. pensaba en irme pero habia una gente muy buen rollo en el salon y ya cuando se pusieron a tocar el diyeridu ya no pude resistirme. un ruso q siera de la KJB o su hermano o yo q se contandonos metodos de supervivencia y trucos para colocarse. queria despedirme de los del Ki...

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 choice of two methods - bus or taxi. As previously mentioned, in true backpacker style, we opted for the easier mo...

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 markets on the edge of the canal and then the floating stalls on the canal. The tour guide for the day tells us about ...

The most heavily promoted Floating Market. Should've known better ... :-p Was very sleepy as I slept really late the night before and was in half a mind to skip this ... but, I already paid for it, so I dragged myself there. It is one of the main things to see in Thailand, where wooden canoes laden with fruits and vegetables were paddled by wome...

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 for a long boat ride down the canals and though the market. Wooden canoes laden with multicolo...

When I finally found the south bus station in Bangkok, I then had to find the ticket office - up 3 floors with all my luggage, and then it was the furthest desk away (figures!) in the airport desk style layout they had. I asked the girl what time the bus was, and she said "now". In flashbacks to the Thai lady yesterday at the Ancient City, she s...

Every morning since he retired, my dad loads up his kayak and paddles out thru the Florida eastern seaboard mangroves to his favorite fishing location. He does this for recreation. Every morning these Thai merchants, some his age-group peers, load up their wares onto long boats and paddle to the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. They do this from ...

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

After 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 confidently asserts that the best way to do this is to spend the night in the town and...