2 Day 1 Night Bangkok Discovery Package Tour (Private Tour)

About this experience

Get to see all the highlights this steamy mega metropolis has to offer with a two-day one-night package in Bangkok. See Bangkok’s most important palace and temple complex (Wat Pra Kaew and the Grand Palace), go back in time and discover a more leisurely pace of life which can only be seen from a canal boat on the Thonburi canals, enjoy the splendor of Wat Arun sitting majestically on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. On the second day, we will get out of town to see the thriving floating market at Damnoen Saduak, a palm sugar factory, and the bizarre railway market at Mae Klong. You will also get to visit the Oyster fishermen who farm the mangrove river estuaries flowing out into the Gulf of Thailand.

Day 1 – Bangkok

This tour is a great way to begin your exploration of Bangkok with a visit to this mega cities true heart and center! On this day trip, we will collect you from your Bangkok hotel and take you to our first destination of the day which is Bangkok’s most important palace and temple complex ‘The Grand Palace’. The Grand Palace was built as a royal residence and over the years many additions have been made including the stunning Wat Prah Kaew which houses the Emerald Buddha carved out of a single piece of Jade! After the Grand Palace, we proceed to Wat Po famous for its Thai massage school and its giant reclining Buddha. We will stop for lunch before heading to the mighty Chao Phraya river where we will board a long tail boat for a ride along the Chao Phraya. From this great vantage point, you will be right amongst river life and see Bangkok from a different perspective. We will soon leave the main river for the backwater canals in Thonburi where you will see a more sedate and traditional way of living as we make our way up and down narrow canals a long way from the hectic pace and traffic of usual Bangkok life. After disembarking the long tail boat we will take a cross-river ferry to Wat Arun one of Bangkok’s most iconic temples. You will be able to get close up and climb partway up the Pagoda to get a panoramic view over the Chao Phraya. For our last destination, we will take you to see the solid gold Buddha at Wat Traimit. At the end of the day, we will transfer you back to your Bangkok hotel.

Day 2 – Floating Market, Mangroves, and Monkeys

Get ready for an early departure as we will be picking you up at 7:00 am for our trip onwards to Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. On the route to Damnoen Saduak, we will stop by at Mae Klong Train Market where you witness the market vendor’s goods set up across the tracks of a working railway line. Just wait and see the amazing scene unfold when the scheduled train passes through this market! Before Damnoen Saduak we will make a short stop at a wonderful little Home industry producing palm sugar. You can see the sugar being made as well as try some of the sweet candy produced from the palm sugar. At Damnoen Saduak you well board a privately chartered motorboat where we will travel some of the canals on the way to the market and you can get a glimpse of real canal-side life. we will disembark the boat at the market and you will then be free to explore the market, you can wander up and down the canals flagging down boats and vendors as you please, or take the paddle boat option where you can really get amongst the action on the canals. Following the morning’s activities at the train and floating markets, we will make our way to the river where we will board a boat that will take us through a local fishing community out into the estuary to visit the mangroves swamps. The mangroves are home to a troop of macaque monkeys, many will come swimming out to the boat in the hope of being fed a banana or two! The boat will continue out into the river estuary and then out into the sea. Our day will finish when we transfer you to your Bangkok hotel.

This is a 100% private tour just for you and your group, with your own vehicle, driver and licensed English-speaking guide. You will not join other travellers. The price is per person and gets lower the bigger your group (up to 9 guests; for larger groups, contact us).

Meals

This is a 2 Day 1-night tour and you will be provided with meals as follows:

Day 1 – lunch
Day 2 – lunch

Accommodation

Hotel accommodation is not included. Please book your own hotel and add its name and address in your booking so we can arrange pick-up.

Pick-up and drop-off

Free pick up and drop off is included to and from any Bangkok city hotel. There may be an extra charge levied for pick up and drop off at outlying hotels and hotels in the Suvarnabhumi Airport area. We will let you know before the tour if this applies.

Grand Palace dress code

Visitors are required to dress appropriately. The following clothes are strictly not allowed as outer garments for both ladies and gentlemen:

1. Shorts, mini-skirts, short skirts, tight-fitting trousers, tight leggings, and tights, (Long skirts lower than your knees are allowed.)
2 . See-through shirts and blouses, as well as culottes or quarter length trousers
3. Sleeveless shirts or vests (t-shirts are allowed)
4. Sandals (without ankle or heel straps)
5. Rolled-up-sleeved shirts
6. Sweatshirts and sweatpants, wind-cheaters, pajamas, and fisherman trousers

Further dress code notes:
Long Trousers, pants are required, not just only the knee-level ones. Quarter length trousers cannot be worn.
No hole in any part of jeans, skirts, pants, and trousers should be seen.
Scarves or shawls cannot be worn to cover your shoulders, a t-shirt or long-sleeved shirt must be worn

Dress for temple visits

On this tour, you will be visiting Buddhist temples. Respectful dress is always appreciated. For dress we suggest the following:
Please wear a shirt which covers the shoulders and reaches the waist (a t-shirt will be fine!) For legware, at least knee-length shorts or skirts should be worn.