Old timers catch up

Floating markets

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May 18th 2007
Day 3: Day tour of Floating Market and Rose Garden Our next day was a big one. We booked a full day tour that kicked off at 6am with a one-and-a-half hour drive to the Damnern Saduak Floating Market, located 110km from Bangkok. It was neat to get out of the city to see rice paddies, salt fields and farms. On the way we also stopped at a coconut farm where we saw (and more importantly for me, t ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more