The floating market is located about 1.5 hours outside of Bangkok. It is more of a tourist attraction than a market for the locals, but it was still worth seeing. We took a bus there early in the morning and then got to go on a paddleboat through the market. This was neat however they made us wear straw hats on the paddleboat. I think this was more for the locals entertainment than for our sun protection....
The paddleboat weaved in and out of other boats taking us from stale to stale, trying to get us to buy things. The waterway is only about 6 metres wide and there are MANY boats trying to fight there way through. This was more entertaining than the market itself at times.
While we went through the market other boats with the locals were coming up to us with the strangest setups of grills to fry meat, fruit baskets and other contraptions so that we could buy food along the way. It was hilarious seeing what types of setups they had. There were huge mounds of noodles and rice and vegetables along with actual woks to make pad thai, all on one small narrow boat.
We spent about an hour on the paddleboat and an hour walking around the land portion and then headed back. It was well worth the bus ride!
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