5 experiences to discover a different Bangkok
When you come to the Thai capital for the first time, there are inevitable visits (Wat Phra Kaew and the Grand Palace, Wat Pho, Wat Arun …) and there are other experiences making you discover the city differently. Here is a selection of 5 original experiences to discover Bangkok differently.
Bangkok Weekend Floating Market Food Tour
Floating markets are an institution in Thailand! Even if they have lost their importance and are not what they were just a few decades ago any more, they remain friendly places testimonies of past Thailand and Bangkok when life on River was more animated than life on the asphalt.
A Thai local offers to be your guide (in English) and take you to discover Khlong Lat Mayom market, the friendliest floating market on the outskirts of Bangkok. The program includes the market visit, tasting of a local meal and a boat ride on the Bangkok klongs (small canals that run through the city).
-> Book Bangkok Weekend Floating Market Food Tour (19€ per person)
Bangkok Local Food Specialities by Night Tour
In Thailand and especially in Bangkok, there is a lot of life when night falls: night markets, street restaurant installed on sidewalks, Volkswagen minivans turned into bars … Discovering life in Bangkok in the evening and its culinary specialties is discovering another Bangkok.
The tour (in English) is offered by a Thai. It first takes you in Chinatown, then to visit Wat Tramit and its large solid gold Buddha, before you discover the local cuisine with 4 stops and 5 different dishes, before finishing with a short tuk-tuk ride and a stop at a bar with panoramic views of the river. A very nice program for a night in Bangkok!
-> Book Local Food Specialties by Night (29€ per person)
Cycling in the Green Lung of Bangkok
Bangkok is a city not like the others. Both modern and traditional, urban and rural. There is a picturesque area known as the “green lung of Bangkok” called Bang Kachao. Very exotic!
Romain, a French blogger living in Thailand, will take you right across the Chao Phraya River, to this hidden oasis where building was prohibited.
-> Book Cycling in the Green Lung of Bangkok (28€ per person)
Discovering life along the Bangkok canals
More complete than the first tour of this list, this tour will take you to 3 floating markets located more than 80 km of Bangkok including the famous Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Bang Noi and Amphawa which is more a night floating market.
This day tour offered by a Thai (who speaks only English and Thai) includes transportation by minivan from Bangkok and meals.
-> Book Life Belong Canal Day Tour with Local Dinner (50€ per person)
Eat with locals in Bangkok
What better way to experience the food and the famous Thai smile than having dinner with locals. These meals are often the opportunity to extraordianires exchange and precious little advice for the rest of your trip to Thailand.
-> See all offers to Eat with locals in Bangkok
Obviously, you do not necessarily need to book the tours offered, you can get inspired by them and organize them by yourself. You can find usefull information on our website. But being accompanied by a local radically changes the experience !
