Bangkok Canal Tour

Bangkok Canal Tour on the Chao Phraya River. This canal tours lets you see in the lifestyle of a Bangkok where coexist, along with skyscrapers, even piles built exactly like that tradition. The long tail boat will be the main course of the River and the small secondary channels, you can see the beauty and simplicity of houses built on the River, landscape typical of an traditional Thai style, swallowed by the progress.

Starting with pickup from the hotel in Bangkok. Our guide will pick you up at the Hotel and then climb aboard a traditional long tail boat (เรือหางยาว) for visiting rural channel of the Chao Phraya River along which develops the outskirts of the city. You can enjoy the simple lifestyle of the locals and their wooden houses on stilts.

Stopping along the way for the visit of real boats used during the annual ceremony of the Royal Rice Barge.

The easiest way is taking a Chao Phraya River express boat. There are also several canal routes by long-tail boat which offer more charming scenery with stops at old temples which are scattered along all canals.

Wat Suwannaram is an ancient temple erected in the Ayutthaya period. It is noted for its magnificent murals painted in the reign of King Rama III.

Wat Sisudaram is a temple where Sunthon Phu, a famous Thai poet who was designated by UNESCO as a classic poet of the world, used to stay in his childhood. Besides the monument to the poet, the multipurpose hall built in the Ayutthaya period is still well-preserved.

Wat Nairong boasts murals depicting episodes of the ten previous lives of the Lord Buddha on the walls of its ordination hall.

Wat Phaowana Phirataram The highlight of the temple, erected in the reign of King Rama V, is its multipurpose hall built in the traditional Thai style.

The Royal Barges Museum is a dockyard for royal barges used in ceremonial processions. Among the most magnificent are the Suphannahong and the Narayana Songsuban.