Bangkok – Railway & Floating Markets

Had a week in Bangkok by myself before my next tour. Where Bangkok is so big, it’s meant a lot of grabs to get around places. This is what I’ve been up to…

Railway market

A planned day trip to these two famous markets. Didn’t appreciate how far they were though.

Railway market is 60 years old and the railway was built to the market that was 100 years ago. It was only 20 years ago that they put the market next to the train track. The 1 metre wide train track are so narrow with all the people. 10k tourist visit a day in high season from November! To get an idea how small it was check out the videos on insta.

We were prewarned that Thai people are very superstition, if you step over food, they can not then sell it.

The name of this market is actually the umbrella market, but called train market by the tourists.

We caught the train to arrive into the market and slipped round the back to get back in front of the train to watch it leave. The bus came and met us to leave.

Felt like a celebrity coming into station as everyone was waving at us! On the way on the train, we passed Thailands’ biggest salt pools, though its rainy season, so they are not currently in use.

Floating market

At the floating market we were in a row boat, there was quite a few boats with motors which I don’t think should be allowed as with so many boats all in the same place it was a nightmare trying to avoid banging into other boats and of course watching out the engines of those one didn’t hit you! We went in a big circle on the water and back at the start we when went for lunch in the middle section of the market.