Day 60
Damnoen Saduak – Kanchanaburi
Today we are going on the organized tour, incuding floating market, Damnoen Saduak, bridge over the river Kwai, and Tiger temple.
First stop - floating market. Mini van takes us to the river, where we take a boat and head to the floating market.
As soon as we arrive, we change the big boat on small one, hoping to discover the smaller channels of the market.
However, it was not just our idea! Actually there are loads of boats in the channels, loads of boats with tourists and not a one boat with local people selling things....The only thing thai people sell here are suvenirs and other comercial stuff for the tourists. The traffic is terrible and we spent almost 30 minutes just stuck at one place. Terrible!!!
There were couple of boats selling fruits, which were actually nice and colourful but somehow artificial - you could not see any local people actually buying stuff, just selling.
Básicamente The direct marketing here works this way: a woman seller comes to you and says: "you buy, ok?" :DD
After the boat we finally felt the real ground and could have some mango with sticky rise and some noodles, which were actually good and cheap.
Next stop Jeath Museum and bridge over the river Kwai
If you saw the movie, this place could be interesting...but I have not seen the move :P
A local guy with with violin played the song from the movie, “Colonel Bogey march”, and Juli was very happy!
Next stop - Tiger temple. People say the tigers are drogged, that is why they do not move. I thought the same, but in the end when you see them you can understand, that the animals probably just used to the people, since they look pretty alive and not sleepy at all :-D Important is not to dress into bright colours like pink, red, orange, yellow - this can irritate tigers, the colours of the clothes should be pale or dark.
The entrance in the temple is 500 baht (10 euros) and you can take couple of pictures with the tigers, which is included into this money. Fist you arrive to the Tiger canyon, where you can see 3 lines of people waiting for the picture. The picture can be taken one by one, with different tigers, but obligatory with the personnel of the temple. The staff will take a picture, while you are posing with the tiger. 20€ extra money you pay in case you want a picture with tigeris head lying on your knees.
OK, and here we go the picture (at the back you can see staff, who is watching the tigers and takes the pictures of the people)
You should always be behind the tiger, not to irritate the animal and it is possible to touch.
They take you to several tigers, so at the end you get 8 or 10 pictures.
This one was funny :-D
This one was BIG!
And in the end, after Tiger canyon, we saw some monks playing with baby tigers, so we could take a picture and even hug a kitty :-D
And this is kind of same picture for which you need to pay extra 20€, but in this case taken for free :-D
Then trip was finished and we got back to Bangkok. Juli and Andreea finished the day with thai massage at one spa close to our hotel, 1 hour for 4€...nice!!!
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