The Floating Market

The Floating Tourist Trap

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July 29th 2006
We also got up early to go on to the Floating Market half-day tour, which we had booked. Most of the time was spent in the Bangkok traffic. The market itself was also not at all as I remembered it (see An Incident in Bangkok). Seventeen years ago it was a fruit and vegetable market; now it had been totally taken over by the tourists. There was not a banana in sight. When I went to the Floating Ma ... 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