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<p>Damnoen Saduak Floating Market consists of a maze of narrow khlongs (canals). Female traders, often wearing traditional mo hom apparel (blue farmers&#8217; shirts) with wide-brimmed straw hats (Ngob) use sampans (small wooden boats) to sell their wares, often produce. These boats are often full of vegetables and colorful fruits that are photogenic, and these images are used for tourism promotion. The market is often the busiest in the morning from 07:00 am to 09:00 am and is active until noon. Explore the market waiting for the train, Maeklong Railway Market is spread out on and next to the railway tracks. Customers walk on the railway track looking for something to buy from the shops on either side of the track. Several times per day a train rolls in at a low speed. When the driver sounds the horn, the vendors quickly pick up and remove their wares to make way for the approaching train. Immediately after the train has passed the canopy roof is raised back and it’s business as usual.</p>


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Damnoen Saduak Floating Market consists of a maze of narrow khlongs (canals). Female traders, often wearing traditional mo hom apparel (blue farmers' shirts) with wide-brimmed straw hats (Ngob) use sampans (small wooden boats) to sell their wares, often produce. These boats are often full of vegetables and colorful fruits that are photogenic, and these images are used for tourism promotion. The market is often the busiest in the morning from 07:00 am to 09:00 am and is active until noon.

Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

Maeklong Railway Market is spread out on and next to the railway tracks. Customers walk on the railway track looking for something to buy from the shops on either side of the track. Several times per day a train rolls in at a low speed. When the driver sounds the horn, the vendors quickly pick up and remove their wares to make way for the approaching train. Immediately after the train has passed the canopy roof is raised back and it’s business as usual.

Maeklong Railway Market (Talad Rom Hub)

River City BANGKOK

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<li>Or, you can also get picked up. There is a transfer service for Silom, Sukhumvit, and Pratunam, pay extra directly to the driver 300 baht/person (round trip).</li>
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Floating Market Trip

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Experience the iconic Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, with traders in traditional mo hom shirts selling vibrant produce from sampans. Then, witness the unique Maeklong Railway Market, where vendors swiftly clear tracks for passing trains, resuming trade moments after.

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Get a taste of local life in Thailand with this small-group tour from Bangkok to two different markets. Cruise around the stalls on a long tail boat at Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, and take a train to Mae Klong Railway Station, where a market can be found on and around the railway tracks.

Damnoen Saduak Floating Market & Maeklong Railway Market Tour From Bangkok

The Railway market was fairly good. Very busy as mostly tourist that descend en-mass to be there when the train goes through. Likewise the train was full of tourists. Above is understandably...

Train market good, Floating market bad

Expecting to be delivered to a tourist focused excursion I was pleasantly surprised by the realness of both the Train market and the floating market. The fresh market along the railway was very...

Well worth a look - Watch for the scam.

A must trip to Bangkok. Our guide Kiwi was so adorable and enthusiastic. It was so humbling to ride the train and the boat in the floating market. It was a super traditional ravishing experience

My floating market and Stinky train tour

Dear Valued Customer,nnThank you for sharing your experience with us. We're glad to hear that you enjoyed the unique experience of the Railway Market, despite the crowds of tourists. It truly is a fascinating sight to see the stalls adjust just in time for the train.nnHowever, weu2019re sorry to hear that the floating market did not meet your expectations. We understand your concerns about the commercialization of the market, the environmental issues, and the additional boat costs. Your feedback is valuable, and we will share it with the relevant teams to explore ways to improve the experience for future guests.nnWe appreciate your honest review and will take your comments into account as we work on refining our tour offerings. If there is anything we can do to assist you further, please feel free to reach out.nnBest regards,nOh Hoo Travel 

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The Railway market was fairly good. Very busy as mostly tourist that descend en-mass to be there when the train goes through. Likewise the train was full of tourists. Above is understandably obvious so nice to see the stalls adjust just in time to let the train through. nnFloating market was massively disappointing. The stalls are 90% selling cheap tourist tack. All the same. No-one is trading fruit and veg etc, as you see in the posters. The canals are full of plastic polution, its everywhere in the water on the banks, its been that way for years as its embedded in and dredging spoil along the banks. nAlso if you like breathing in exhaust fumes then this tour is for you. Young drivers handle huge engines on the long boats are skilfully maneuvered around the slower ones being paddled by older, fitter drivers. What they don't tell you is that if havent paid for fully inclusive tour you pay u00a375 for the boat for 90 mins tour. Not too bad if your group is 4 or 6 but a rip off if you are two.

Matt L

Expecting to be delivered to a tourist focused excursion I was pleasantly surprised by the realness of both the Train market and the floating market. The fresh market along the railway was very good and by no means a display for the tourists. Our experience at the flower market was similar, riverside trading, paddle boat ride and surrounding tourist market were all of a high standard. Buy souvenirs, a coconut pancake, plate of fresh fruit or a beer as you drift along the canals. Paddle boat pricing can be negotiated and is better once you move away from the carpark. As a couple through a tourist office on Khaosan road we arranged a private driver to take us to both (750BHT pp). The drive time is at least 90 minutes each way in reasonable traffic. Everything was good until we got to a carpark ~ 3km from the Damnoen Saduak floating market where the boat guys wanted another 4000 BHT to take us to the market, more if you wanted to see the Elephants as well. It took us the next 15mins and google maps to convince our driver to take us to the floating market carpark where entrance is free and the only additional cost is incurred if you want to get in a paddle boat. For this we paid 300BHT for both of us.

Lesley M

Auckland Central, New Zealand

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Wonderful trip with excellent guide and organization, responsibility fullfiled the trip. So confortable.

Comfortable journey

En upplevelse som bara gu00e5r ut pu00e5 att shoppa vu00e4ldigt turistiskt, tyvu00e4rr su00e5 har vi rest fu00f6r mycket fu00f6r att uppskatta detta, men som ny i Thailand su00e5 u00e4r det nog roligare.