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1st Day Tour North Thailand

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March 6th 2009
The 6am start to day was worth it for a full day of sight seeing: floating markets, River Kwai and Tiger temple. Arrived at Damnoen Saduak Floating market and boarded motorised tourist canoe boats to take us to main market area. Here we got on a wooden open canoe and our guide paddled us through the jungle of sellers and throught the floating village. The first buy for many were straw hats-defini ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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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