The Floating Tourist Trap
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
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