Day 5 : 13 July 2012
Leave Eastin hotel for Kanchanaburi
07.00 hrs Guide pick up clients from Eastin hotel to
Khanchanaburi,
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| This is Eastin hotel lobby is the meeting place |
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| Hotel lobby is on the seven floor of the building |
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| Comfortable van with lot of seat available, anyone want to join |
Floating Market
Along the way visit
Floating market. Damnoen Saduak in Ratchaburi
Province is the most colorful of Thailand s floating markets , about 104 km
southwest of Bangkok. Visit the famous floating market, then board a canal boat
and view native life along the canal banks and arrive at the market, where
boats of various shapes and size, carry goods for trading.
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| Yummy ! fresh coconut meat |
Look like Camiel enjoy fresh coconut, especially the soft meat. This young coconut meat is great for making dessert. The old coconut meat is coconut milk.
The complimentary before boat ride.
The floating market is in Ratchaburi province.
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| Everybody on board |
The Wijffels arrive the floating market in early morning. Taking small private and exclusive boat into canal.
Why this boat is exclusive ? Because , it has a roof and soft seat , and only private small group can go.
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| Damnern saduak canal |
A ride along the canal, view on the side is farm and Thai house which is different from Bangkok Canal. Canal is totally man made.
Thai kings hired the Chinese to work as labor and dug all network of canal by hand and primitive tool. So the water is just 1.50 meter deep in average. Isn't it cool, they made canal over 150 years but still usable for now a day.
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| Merchant selling fruit. The red color fruit is rose apple |
after entering the floating market , you can see a lot of small boat selling all kind of products. This is another type of traffic jam in Thailand, we can call boat traffic jam.
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| Top view of floating market and paddle boat service on the right |
The market is not so busy in this area.
The floating market was smaller than they think. After arrival the market , it took little time to walking around. Taste a Thai snack , fruit and shopping.
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| Rice soup boat vender |
They cook the food on the boat and serve right after order. Amazing Thailand.
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| Around the bridge you can also find the blood diamond too. You can buy one to your home. That was why , the Japanese come here during World War II , hahaha, ! I am joking. |
At night , this is entertainment time. No No No, it is not
television program. It was Mon dance. Mon is minority group move from southern
of Yangon in Myanmar. A lot of them move
to Thailand since late of 1800. Big
migration occurs when political problem.
It was nice night to see them dancing rap in Mon custom.
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| Mon dance at night |
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