Kanchanaburi Private Tour: Floating & Railway Market
Highlights
- Private tour from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi
- Damnoen Saduak and Maeklong Railway Market
- Extended route adds Erawan Waterfall and River Kwai Bridge
- Licensed English-speaking guide
- Private air-conditioned transfer
- Free cancellation
- Instant confirmation
The extended version of this private Kanchanaburi tour is ambitious: twelve to fourteen hours covering Damnoen Saduak floating market, Maeklong Railway Market, Erawan Waterfall, and the River Kwai Bridge in a single loop from Bangkok. It’s the trip for travellers who prefer one long, packed day to splitting a weekend across two shorter excursions. The standard route (seven to eight hours) drops the waterfall and the bridge and focuses on the two markets.
Morning runs through the classic Damnoen Saduak and Maeklong Railway Market combination: a motor boat ride through the canals past vendors paddling wooden boats of fruit and grilled meat, then the railway market where the awnings fold back seconds before each train passes. A coconut sugar farm and a salt farm visit sit between the two stops on the extended route. Lunch bridges the day before the drive west into Kanchanaburi province. Erawan Waterfall is a seven-tier limestone cascade with emerald pools for swimming. You get around three hours to hike up and swim on the way. The day ends at the Death Railway and the River Kwai Bridge, with time for the sunset over the river. Private air-conditioned vehicle, licensed English-speaking guide, travel insurance, and hotel pickup and drop-off are included on both routes. Lunch and the waterfall/bridge entries are only in the extended package.
Seven to fourteen hours depending on route, rated challenging for the extended version mostly because of the distance and the Erawan climb. The waterfall trail is a proper hike in the heat: good shoes, water, and sun cover matter. Standard-route days skip the coconut farm workshop.
The extended route is the one to book if you only have a single day and want both the markets and Kanchanaburi. For anyone who gets tired on long days, split it into two shorter trips instead.
Itinerary
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
The Floating Market of Damnoen Saduak is among one of the most attractive floating markets in Thailand. Motor boat rides are already included in your tour. Many Thai and foreign tourists come here to absorb the atmosphere of Thailand water markets that have been like this for over a 100 years. At this floating market, you can try a number of delicious Thai fruits and foods such as sweet mango on sticky rice, freshly-made coconut icecream, and Thai-style boat noodle.
Mae Klong Railway Market (Hoop Rom Market)
The Railway Market is humorously called as the “life-risking” market. You will have fun riding a local train toward the Mae Klong station. While on this train, you will see the “Unseen-Thailand” experience. When the train signal rings up, the chaos will happen. Vendors will rush to detract their stall and clear away all goods that obstructs the running train at a great speed. Once the train passes, all shop owners will resume their stalls again.
Coconut Sugar Farm
Visit a coconut sugar farm near Damnoen Saduak floating market. At this factory, you will learn how Thai farmers produce coconut nectar. You will see a demonstration of coconut flower cutting, pouring the nectar into a bamboo container, putting preservation woods in the container, boiling up and pasteurizing the nectar into the drinkable one. This will be your eye-opening experience.
Samut Sakhon
A special bonus stop for guests who join the floating and railway market tour in 2020. The whitish salt field, not a rice field, of course. This sea salt is produced by Thai local wisdom. The salt farmer rotates the sea water in different levels matching the strength of wind and sunlight. The rotation continues until the salt becomes a “salt mountain” ready for cooking, skincare, and agriculture. On Highway 35 in Samut Sakhorn province, the guide leads you to rub the salt on your hand and take photos.
Erawan Waterfalls
Erawan Waterfall is recognized as one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Thailand. The major attraction of the park is the 7-tiered Erawan Falls with emerald green ponds. Erawan has seven separate tiers spanning approximately 1,500 meters through the thick rainforest of the park. The park are named after "Erawan", the three-headed white elephant of Hindu mythology. The top tier of the falls is said to resemble an elephant head. Admission fee for foreigners are included in your tour.
River Khwae Bridge
Thanks to several films and books, the Bridge over the River Kwai has become famous and attracted both Thais and foreigners to the site. If an ordinary black iron bridge can tell a story, you can be sure it's a dramatic one. The bridge has steel plates over the ties to make it easy to walk over the span. There are also viewing platforms between the trestles to give you a view of the river as well as to give you a place to get out of the way if you're on the bridge when a train comes. You will have a delicious lunch at a raft restaurant near the River Kwai Bridge.
Included
- [Extended route] Lunch & Drink, visit to River Kwai Bridge and Erawan waterfall (Fee included)
- Delicious, Locally-made Coconut Drink
- Professional Licensed English-Speaking Guide
- Travel Acccident Insurance (Max coverage 1,000,000 THB per person)
- Hotel Pickup and Drop-off & Private Air-Conditioned Vehicle
- Motor Boat Ride in the Floating Market & Train Ride to Railway Market
Not Included
- [Standard route] Excluding lunch & drink, visit to River Kwai Bridge and Erawan waterfall
- [Standard route: 9am] A mini-workshop at a local coconut farm is unavailable.
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Cancellation
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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