Day 3 in Bangkok and we decided to do a morning excursion to one of the floating markets. After breakfast at the MoMo cafe and saying hello to Fon, a driver picked us up from the hotel and we took a car over to the river front. Once at the river front we boarded one of these long canal boats (khlong boats) with our tour guide to begin our trip. You can see here how excited Little K is.
On our scenic trip through the canals we were able to see how people live outside of the city of Bangkok. From the top left hand corner below, you can see 1) a waterway intersection in the canal system, 2) a spirit house, 3) more of the beautiful long boats, 4) a floating souvenir shop where Little K was able to purchase a Hello Kitty Fan for a dollar or two and 5) a floating “farmers market”.
After our ride through the canals, we arrived at the floating market. We walked past this beautiful field of lotus flowers:
Then we crossed the bridge to head into the market. Before that we wanted to document our moment with a family photo but Little K wasn’t having it. She boycotted so J and I took a selfie instead:
It was pretty ridiculously hot so neither Little K nor I had much of an appetite, but the market was filled with all kinds of food. Freshly cooked meals and tons on desserts and delicacies. They also had a number of goods for purchase, but mainly we were there to check out the food. As mentioned previously, we had already tried a number of unique fruits like the dragonfruit, rambutan and thai bananas; however, we had not yet had pomelo so we did try that. I tasted chrysanthemum tea and liked it, and we tried a number of desserts like mango sticky rice, freshly made rice cakes, moon cakes, etc. Only J had enough of an appetite to get something larger to eat.
After our time at the market, we hopped back aboard the canal boat to head back to the main part of the river. Little K took a bit of a nap on me as we rode back. On the ride back, we were a little more observant and noticed that some things really are the same from country to country… the homeless living underneath the bridge for example. I wish I could help them all.
From there we went to visit Wat Arun, one of the temples. Pretty much like all the other temples we’d seen so far except for the fact that this one was sort of a hybrid Buddhist and Hindu temple so you can see artwork, artifacts and architecture representing both religions/cultures.
By the time we finished at Wat Arun, we were farther past lunch time than we had anticipated so we grabbed a quick lunch and then spent the remainder of the day relaxing. We went up to the pool for a bit until the clouds rolled in and it started to rain.
I enjoyed a glass of wine by the pool and Little K wanted a “fancy drink” too so we got her watermelon juice with a little fruit garnish. Totally made her day. Then, since it was raining, we headed back inside and made her day even more since she got to watch a little bit of shows on her ipad. Only another day or so left in Bangkok!
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