| Duration: | 8 Hour(s) - 0 Minute(s) |
| Tour Category: | Full Day Tours |
Visit Thailand's unique Floating Market at Damnoensaduak and also see how they make the coconut sugar and take the speed boat along the canal to see Thai rural life and the Floating Market with shoppers and vendors plying their wares from tiny boats.
Also visit the Bridge over the River Kwai of cinematic fame, the war cemetery of allied soldiers who perished while building the notorious "Death Railway" during captivity in World War II, and the War Museum.
Tour Itinerary :
• Pick up from the hotel and depart Bangkok for Samut Songkram province.
• Stop at "Tao Tan" a place where palm sugar is made is called "Tao Tan". Sugar palm is a famous quality product of Samut Songkram. When a coconut tree is about 3-4 years old, its spadices are cut so that farmers can collect its sweet sap, then they simmer it over a fire until it becomes brown and dry.
• Arrival at Damnoensaduak district to take a long-tail boat along the canal to the floating market. Damnoensaduak Floating Market is the best-known destination where the timeless lifestyle of native Thai people can be observed along the canals.
• Visit to Royal Thai Handicraft Village and continue to Kanchanaburi Province.
• Lunch at a restaurant
• JEATH War Museum - This enclave in the riverside precincts of Wat Chaichumphon has been constructed largely in the form of an Allied prisoners of war camp. The name JEATH is derived from Japan, England, America, Thailand, and Holland.
• Kanchanaburi War Cemetery - This cemetery contains the remains of 6,982 war prisoners who lost their lives during the Captivity of the Japanese Army that forced them to build the Bridge over the River Kwai and the Death Railway.
• The Bridge over the River Kwai - Internationally famous, the black iron bridge was brought from Java by the Japanese Army and reassembled under Japanese supervision by Allied prisoners of war labor as part of the "Death Railway" linking Thailand with Myanmar.
• At the end of the tour will be a visit to a local product store.
