Wednesday May 15 2013
We got up early to check out the Floating Market near Bangkok. It's about an hour drive through the country. It's lovely and lush as you get outside the city.
We had been warned that it was extremely touristy. And that definitely was the case, unfortunately. All around the floating market is a barrage of shops selling cheap souvenirs, hippy pants and t-shirts. We had a lot more time than was needed to browse these shops. You take a motor boat with the whole tour group to the main site and then from there you rent a cheaper smaller hand paddled boat to slowly go through the market. This market is lined again with souveneer items. In the boats are some people selling more authentic things like fruit, spices etc but mostly it's hats, t-shirts and placemats.
Overall it was a fun experience that we enjoyed.
That night we checked out the giant gold reclining Buddha. It was very large and the site was pretty cool in general.
Buddhist monks walking outside the walls of the temple of the Reclining Buddha
Floating Market outside Bangkok
Reclining Buddha
Buddhas feet
Reclining Stray Cat
We packed up that night to take bus to Cambodia early in the morning. We prebooked this trip specifically asking, "we make no other stops?" And we assured no. So for $8 each we had our tickets for our 7am-5:50pm journey to Siem Reap
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