Private Tour: Damnoen Saduak Floating Market and Bangkok City Temples

Bangkok, Thailand

Visit Damnoen Saduak Floating Market with a private guide and observe Thailand's traditional method of buying fresh produce. Back in Bangkok, continue your personalized full-day tour to Wat Traimit, Wat Pho, and Wat Benchamabophit to learn about this distinctive temple architecture. Lunch and hotel transport by private minivan included.

Start your full-day itinerary with hotel pickup in Bangkok and travel by private minivan to the legendary Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, located 65 miles (110 km) west of the capital. Your journey commences with a scenic drive through rice paddies and salt fields. En route, visit a farmhouse and observe locals producing sugar from coconuts. Then continue by speedboat, passing fruit plantations and Thai houses that reveal a more traditional way of life.

Upon arrival at Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, discover boats of all different shapes and sizes, still used by local merchants to ferry their goods. Let your guide know if you'd like to help bargaining with local merchants for fresh produce, flowers, or souvenirs. Heading back toward Bangkok, you'll make a brief stop at a wood-carving factory.

After lunch, it's time for your city tour of three temples resplendent with golden spires, orange-tiered roofs, saffron-robed monks, and serene Buddha images. Your guide takes you to the Reclining Buddha of Wat Pho, a statue covered in gold leaf, continue on to Wat Traimit (Temple of the Golden Buddha) for a look at its solid gold figure that dates back centuries. Finally, see Wat Benchamabophit, a royal temple noted for its dazzling white Carrara marble from Italy.

You'll see some of Bangkok's distinctive neighborhoods while traveling between sites, and learn all about the history behind each place of worship. Your tour concludes with private transport back to your hotel.