Blogs from Ampawa, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia

I looked for a floating marked and was pleased to find something a little bit different from the floating market that I visited before: “floating kitchens”. Ladies pulled up on their boats by the steps on the sides of the brige and cook food, mainly seafood and there are little tables and little stools for customers to sit on and eat on the steps. A waitress takes the order and delivers it to the boat lady and brings the food from the boats to the people. The waitress also delivers the payment. Super interesting. I spend some time watching and trying to figure out how to photograph what was going on and capture the atmosphere properly without a wide wide angle. I forgot I had my gopro in the pocket and could have filmed the restaurant ... read more

After I had some fruit I had a bit of energy to do a boat ride. There were different prices for the sight seeing boat rides. 50 THB for a regular sight seeing. It was 500 THB for 5 temples and 900THB for 9 temples. I didn’t feel like doing any temples at all. I just wanted to see the temple in the three. But I could ‘t ask anyone in English. I understood you have to go to the more expensive rides to see the temple in the tree. I wasn’t motivated enough and I decided to go for the basic sightseeing tour. I took the 50 THB one. I was surprised to find out that it stops at temples too. I stepped of the boat at the first 2 but after that I was ... read more

1. WONGWAIAN TRAIN STATION My new plan is to go somewhere each weekend, repeat or not, doesn’t matter but go somewhere. Pim, my instructor for the Basic Thai cooking skills class was trying to organize the group of students to do this trip but at the end of the day she was schedule for a pro class on Saturday and everyone else had something to do… so I decided to stick to the plans and do it on my own, “the local way”. The local way to amphawa is to do the train route to Maekhlong (where the railway market is, that I blogged about before) and from there take the bus to Amphawa and spend the night in town because of two reasons: Amphawa has a night time floating market and second, it has a ... read more

Hi all, Well again I am well behind in my blogs, but suppose that means we are doing the right thing by relaxing... Below are lots of photos taken from when Mia and I spent the day (Sunday 24th March) with Bangkok Food Tours and their 'offbeat floating market' tour. A great and long day out visiting the famous train market and 3 floating markets. The train market is set up along the railway and 8 times a day a train passes through. Each time it does the vendors have to pull aside the food and pull down their shade screens so that the train can pass. As soon as it has passed each stall, the vendor pops the shade screen back up and the produce is slid back into place. It's quite funny to watch! ... read more

Amphawa It had been quite some time since I woke up at 6am in the morning. We were supposed to be giving alms to the monks, who will be rowing down the river. It was a beautiful and peaceful morning. However, the 2 of us were too sleepy to notice much. I just merely let my fingers do the clicking. As it was a Monday morning, Amphawa felt very much like a dead town. No shops or anything was open. They were mainly for the locals and they are only open from Friday - Sunday afternoons. For those who like the crowds, you might want to check out the other floating markets such as Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Taling Chan Floating Market, Tha Kha Floating Market etc... There are several other homestay around Amphawa as well. ... read more