OK, you've seen it before. Pictures of idyllic boats floating in a canal, forming a market with ladies in straw hats in boats selling goods to people in other boats. Colors of all kinds. Happy smiley people. This is the postcard version of Damaen Saduak, the floating market.
Enter Courtney and Tony, tourists extraordinare. Bouncing about in our VIP car ride from Bangkok to the market. Hopping into the "James Bond long tail dragon boat" to take us to the market.
Switching to a gondola driven by a young kid who I swear every old lady was swearing in Thai at... Floating about in the water version of weekend market we went earlier in the week.... with goods at 4 times the price....and no traffic lanes. We didn't buy anything except for fried bananas.
And upon exit, would you believe it? Someone took pictures of us in our motorized dragon boat and was trying to sell it to us ala roller coaster pictures. Pictures of Courtney and Tony pasted 0n a cheap plastic plate that had 'Floating Market' on it. ... For 150 Baht, about 4 bucks.
But tourist escapade aside, we enjoyed ourselves.
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