Bangkok Floating and Railway Market, Coconut Sugar Farm and Salt Fields Tour with Optional Luxury
by Thailand Insight Travel
Choose from 3 available options
How do you want to book?
✓Confirmation before Wed, 9 Sept - card's only charged if it's a yes. If it's a no, still time to book on Viator.
Book on Viator Confirmed right away, but you pay full price.฿5,400Overview
The tour starts with a motorboat ride through Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, traveling along the 38-kilometer canal built 150 years ago by King Rama IV. Visitors can see vendors selling fruits, vegetables, and local foods like mango sticky rice and coconut ice cream. After about 75 minutes at the market, the tour moves to a coconut sugar farm where guests watch how farmers harvest coconut flowers, collect nectar, and turn it into coconut sugar and nectar drinks. There is also a demonstration of squeezing coconut milk using traditional wooden equipment. Next, the tour visits salt fields in Samut Sakhon province. Here, salt farmers use local methods to evaporate seawater by rotating it with wind and sunlight exposure until salt piles form. Guests can touch the salt and take photos at this site along Highway 35. The final market stop is the Mae Klong Railway Market, known for its unusual setup where vendors clear their stalls quickly when a train passes through the tracks. Visitors can witness this event during the hour spent at the market. Private tour guests have the option to ride a local train to Mae Klong station, seeing the market from the train and interacting with other tourists. At the end of the tour, group guests are dropped off at MBK Center, a large shopping mall connected to the BTS National Stadium station, allowing easy access back to the hotel by skytrain. Private tour guests are taken directly to their hotel or can request to be dropped at MBK Center instead. The entire trip lasts about seven hours. Options include traveling by a standard vehicle or a luxury private van, both with roundtrip hotel transfers and a train ride where included. A licensed guide fluent in your language is provided. The motorboat ride and travel accident insurance are included, while lunch and hotel pickup from outside downtown Bangkok are not.
Highlights
What's included
What's not included
Itinerary
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
This market is located on a 38-kilometer-long man-made canal created 150 years ago by King Rama IV. It serves as a trading center for fruits and vegetables. Visitors spend about 75 minutes here, traveling by motorboat among the boats selling Thai fruits and foods such as mango sticky rice, coconut ice cream, and boat noodles.
75 min
Coconut Sugar Farm
Guests observe the traditional method of producing coconut nectar and palm sugar loaf. The process includes cutting coconut flowers, collecting nectar in bamboo containers, preserving it with wood, boiling, and pasteurizing to make a drinkable nectar. Visitors also see how coconut milk is squeezed from shells using a traditional wooden machine known as the 'rabbit-teeth' press. The visit lasts about 15 minutes.
15 min
Samut Sakhon
Located along Highway 35 in Samut Sakhon province, these salt fields are created using local knowledge. Sea water is rotated at different levels depending on wind and sunlight until salt crystals form into piles called 'salt mountains.' Visitors spend about 15 minutes here, where they can touch the salt and take photos.
15 min
Mae Klong Railway Market (Hoop Rom Market)
This market is known for vendors lining the railway tracks with their stalls. When the train approaches, sellers quickly retract their goods and stall structures to clear the tracks, then resume selling after the train passes. The visit lasts about an hour. Private tour guests can ride a local train to Mae Klong station for about 30 minutes, watching the market activity from the train and interacting with other tourists.
60 min
MBK Center (Ma Boon Khrong Center)
MBK Center is a large shopping mall popular with tourists for buying Thai products. Group tour guests are dropped off here after the tour. It is connected to the BTS National Stadium station, allowing convenient skytrain access back to hotels. Private tour guests are either dropped at their hotel or may request to be dropped at MBK Center.
Meeting point
BTS Siam Exit No.2 (connecting walkway to CenterPoint of Siam Square)
End point
Dropoff at MBK Center department store (near BTS National Stadium). You can ride BTS skytrain to return to your hotel conveniently. Google map of MBK Center: https://goo.gl/maps/x6ciR7X8KsBNYdCK9
Languages
Cancellation policy
- Cancel at least 24 hours before start for a full refund.
Additional info
Bangkok Floating and Railway Market, Coconut Sugar Farm and Salt Fields Tour with Optional Luxury
by Thailand Insight Travel
Choose from 3 available options
How do you want to book?
✓Confirmation before Wed, 9 Sept - card's only charged if it's a yes. If it's a no, still time to book on Viator.
Book on Viator Confirmed right away, but you pay full price.฿5,400Overview
The tour starts with a motorboat ride through Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, traveling along the 38-kilometer canal built 150 years ago by King Rama IV. Visitors can see vendors selling fruits, vegetables, and local foods like mango sticky rice and coconut ice cream. After about 75 minutes at the market, the tour moves to a coconut sugar farm where guests watch how farmers harvest coconut flowers, collect nectar, and turn it into coconut sugar and nectar drinks. There is also a demonstration of squeezing coconut milk using traditional wooden equipment. Next, the tour visits salt fields in Samut Sakhon province. Here, salt farmers use local methods to evaporate seawater by rotating it with wind and sunlight exposure until salt piles form. Guests can touch the salt and take photos at this site along Highway 35. The final market stop is the Mae Klong Railway Market, known for its unusual setup where vendors clear their stalls quickly when a train passes through the tracks. Visitors can witness this event during the hour spent at the market. Private tour guests have the option to ride a local train to Mae Klong station, seeing the market from the train and interacting with other tourists. At the end of the tour, group guests are dropped off at MBK Center, a large shopping mall connected to the BTS National Stadium station, allowing easy access back to the hotel by skytrain. Private tour guests are taken directly to their hotel or can request to be dropped at MBK Center instead. The entire trip lasts about seven hours. Options include traveling by a standard vehicle or a luxury private van, both with roundtrip hotel transfers and a train ride where included. A licensed guide fluent in your language is provided. The motorboat ride and travel accident insurance are included, while lunch and hotel pickup from outside downtown Bangkok are not.
Highlights
What's included
What's not included
Itinerary
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
This market is located on a 38-kilometer-long man-made canal created 150 years ago by King Rama IV. It serves as a trading center for fruits and vegetables. Visitors spend about 75 minutes here, traveling by motorboat among the boats selling Thai fruits and foods such as mango sticky rice, coconut ice cream, and boat noodles.
75 min
Coconut Sugar Farm
Guests observe the traditional method of producing coconut nectar and palm sugar loaf. The process includes cutting coconut flowers, collecting nectar in bamboo containers, preserving it with wood, boiling, and pasteurizing to make a drinkable nectar. Visitors also see how coconut milk is squeezed from shells using a traditional wooden machine known as the 'rabbit-teeth' press. The visit lasts about 15 minutes.
15 min
Samut Sakhon
Located along Highway 35 in Samut Sakhon province, these salt fields are created using local knowledge. Sea water is rotated at different levels depending on wind and sunlight until salt crystals form into piles called 'salt mountains.' Visitors spend about 15 minutes here, where they can touch the salt and take photos.
15 min
Mae Klong Railway Market (Hoop Rom Market)
This market is known for vendors lining the railway tracks with their stalls. When the train approaches, sellers quickly retract their goods and stall structures to clear the tracks, then resume selling after the train passes. The visit lasts about an hour. Private tour guests can ride a local train to Mae Klong station for about 30 minutes, watching the market activity from the train and interacting with other tourists.
60 min
MBK Center (Ma Boon Khrong Center)
MBK Center is a large shopping mall popular with tourists for buying Thai products. Group tour guests are dropped off here after the tour. It is connected to the BTS National Stadium station, allowing convenient skytrain access back to hotels. Private tour guests are either dropped at their hotel or may request to be dropped at MBK Center.
Meeting point
BTS Siam Exit No.2 (connecting walkway to CenterPoint of Siam Square)
End point
Dropoff at MBK Center department store (near BTS National Stadium). You can ride BTS skytrain to return to your hotel conveniently. Google map of MBK Center: https://goo.gl/maps/x6ciR7X8KsBNYdCK9
Languages
Cancellation policy
- Cancel at least 24 hours before start for a full refund.