Private Tour: Floating Market and Rose Garden Tour from Bangkok

Bangkok, Thailand

Travel with your own personal guide from Bangkok to the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market and the Rose Garden (aka Sampran Riverside Thai Village). Take a long-tail boat ride down narrow canals to the floating market, eat a delicious buffet lunch at a restaurant, and admire traditional cultural performances.

Your 12-hour day trip begins with pickup from your Bangkok city hotel lobby in the morning. From here, you will depart in the comfort of a private vehicle for Ratchaburi Province. 

Arrive at a jetty pier for a 30-minute long-tail boat ride to Damnoen Saduak Floating Market with your personal guide. En route, pass by green plantations and Thai houses on both sides of the river and canals. At the floating market of Damnoen Saduak, observe daily life and activities of local vendors and visitors on numerous rowboats.

Then carry on with a visit to the Royal Thai Handicraft Center where you can see Thai artisans at work carving precious teak woods into valuable masterpieces.

After a Thai lunch, pay a visit to the Sampran Riverside Thai Village, formerly known as the Rose Garden. Here, villagers can be seen producing handicrafts such as silks, pottery, dolls, Khon masks, and lacquerware. A cultural show is performed daily. The 1-hour display includes martial arts such as Muay Thai (Thai boxing), a traditional Thai wedding ceremony, an ordination ceremony for entry to the monkhood, and regional dances.

Browse at a jewelry shop before returning to Bangkok in the evening, arriving back at your hotel where your private tour concludes.