From Bangkok to the Bridge on the River Kwai

Trip Description

Accomodation

Stay program

• day 1

  Bangkok Airport - Your hotel

  Welcome by our guide at the airport, then transfer to your hotel. Dinner at your leisure and overnight at the hotel.

• day 2

  Bangkok - City tour and temples - Breakfast, lunch

  

  Breakfast Departure for a visit to the historic heart of Bangkok and Rattanakosin Island. Accompanied by your private guide, you will explore the Bamrung Muang district, renowned for its charming old shops. Continue the visit with Wat Suthat and the metal temple Loha Prasat. Stop by the riverside at Phra Sumen Fort, which once guarded the city gates. It still retains its cannons and battlements, and offers a beautiful view of the river. Visit the Grand Palace, the majestic Wat Phra Keo temple, and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. Lunch at a restaurant, then enjoy a one-hour Thai massage in a salon, ideal for recharging after this day of discoveries. Transfer to your hotel. Dinner at leisure

• day 3

  Bangkok - Floating market - Kanchanaburi - Breakfast, lunch, dinner

  

  Breakfast Early morning departure for the excursion to the Damnoen Saduak floating market, located 110 km from Bangkok. Discover the market by canoe. You will be at the heart of the activity of this market. Continue to Kanchanaburi and the bridge over the River Kwai. View of the river and the bridge. Visit to the Jeath Museum of World War II prisoners, then transfer by long-tail boat to your hotel. Dinner and overnight at the hotel

• day 4

  Kanchanaburi - Bangkok - Breakfast, lunch

  

  Breakfast Departure for an elephant rehabilitation camp located deep in the forest. You will be welcomed by volunteers who will explain the issues related to mass tourism and its impact on animals. Here, there are no elephant-back rides—a traumatic practice for pachyderms—but a respectful and moving encounter with them. You will take part in preparing their food and learn to know them better. Lunch on site Return to Bangkok in the afternoon, then transfer to the airport or to the hotel of your choice in the city center.