OVERVIEW

Tour Code: S52-THA-C-9D8N_Central Thailand Explorer
Trip Name: Central Thailand (9Days 8Nights)
Type of trip: Private
Trip Duration: 9 Days
Start: Bangkok, Thailand
Finish: Bangkok, Thailand
Destinations: BKK-Nakornprathomi-Suphanburi-Ayutthaya-Pratumthani-Nontaburi-Bkk
Package Tours valid until 31 Oct 2016 but require for surcharge for bellow dates
1. Christmas Eve 2015
2. New Year Eve 2016
3. 12 – 16 Apr 2016 (Water Festival)
BRIEF ITINERARY
Day 1 Arrival –BKK  (No Meal)
Day 2 BKK City tour + Grand Palace-CanalTour  (B/-/-)
Day 3 BKK Local life style tour (B/-/-)
Day 4 BKK-Nakorn Prathom by car (B/-/-)
Day 5 Nakorn Prathom – Suphanburi by Car  (B/-/-)
Day 6 Suphanburi-Ayutthaya   (B/-/-)
Day 7 Ayutthaya City tour  (B/-/-)
Day 8 Ayutthaya –Pathum Thani-Nonthaburi  (B/-/-)
Day 9 Nonthaburi-Departure(Flight) (B)
 

09 Days 08 Nights Exploring Central of Thailand Package Tour
Bangkok – Nakornprathom –– Suphanburi – Ayutthaya – Prathumthani – Nonthaburi – Bangkok

 Itinerary
 Day 01: Arrival – Bangkok (Non-meals)
Upon arrival at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport, meet & greet our tour guide at arrival hall with showing up the welcome signboard of your name. Then transfer you to hotel. Check in and relax on your own time afterwards.
Note: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are on your own expenses
Overnight in Bangkok
 
Day 02: Bangkok city – Grand Palace – Temples – Canal Tour (B)
Breakfast at hotel After breakfast, pick up from your hotel and start first tour visit at the Royal Grand Palace has compound with the Emerald Buddha Temple. The palace has full of architectures mixed of Europeans and finest Thai styles. And the Emerald Buddha Temple has a holy Emerald Buddha Image has been keeping in the house for almost 233 years old. After that, we are walking to Wat Pho or the 3^rd largest reclining Buddha Image in Thailand with 48 meter long and 5 meter highs. We’ll not let you boring with tons of temple, we are riding on a motor long tailed boat along the Chaopraya River through Thonburi canals to observe the local life are on both sides of the banks of canal. And we will pass the Dawn of Temple to take some photos of it not getting off from the boat. Back to the pier and continue on to visit the Bharmin Temple which it the oldest Bhramin Temple in Thailand, you will see something are difference from Thai Temple. Stop for having some lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, take you to Platinum Shopping Mall Plaza, it is the wholesale shopping plaza in Bangkok. Free on your leisure, and after shopping finished, then travel to hotel, Free on your own time afterwards.
Note: Lunch and Dinner are on your own expenses
Overnight in Bangkok

Day 03: Bangkok Local life style tours (B)
Breakfast at hotel After breakfast, we are bringing you to visit Mahanak Fresh Market where is the city market sells all fresh fruits to Bangkokians. The Hollywood has ever shot here for the Hang Over Movie. And walk to Baan Manakasila Prime Minister Hall of Frames to see who was the first Prime Minister of Thailand from 1 – 29. And to see what their jobs have done for Thai people during his administration. After that, we will walk about 7-10 minutes along the road to Petchaburi Soi 10 and exploring the local market selling local foods till pass the tomb of Muslim and walking into the deep Soi pass Baan Krua weaving community still exist in the heart of Bangkok. And cross the bridge over the canal to Jim Thompson Thai House & Museum is now a museum in Bangkok. It is a complex of various old Thai structures that the American businessman Jim Thompson collected from all parts of Thailand in the 1950s and 1960s. After the museum, then we will continue walk to National Sport Stadium to see the local Thai people play Trakor or a Plastic ball into the ring with use their legs, back kick, shoulders and head. This is one of Thailand still exist nowadays. We’ll continue our trip to Bangzon Siam Gypsea Night Market to see the locals sell foods, old part machines and etc. which of them lay goods on the street under the Sky railway train. You will have a dinner here.  After dinner, we will return to hotel.
Note: Lunch and Dinner are on your own expenses
Overnight in Bangkok
 
Day 04: Bangkok – Nakorn Prathom by car (B)
Breakfast at hotel In the early morning, we are going to Don Wai Riverside Market, the market is behind the Don Wai Temple and still retains an appearance once it was in King Rama VI period.  The old building is made of wood and locates on the banks of the Tha Chin River. Boat food vendors and farmers’ produce are sold daily from 7am-6pm. Then take a boat for scenic river trips from Wat Don Wai passing Wat Rai Khing, Wang Pla, Wat Sanpetch, Wat Decha, the police cadet academy, and the Rose Garden (Suan Sam Phran). Drop off and learning Living the Thai Culture Art and Craft Workshops at the Thai Village, and then continue to Thai Human Imagery Museum displays life-like wax/fiberglass sculptures with exquisite details.  Created by Ms. Duangkaeo Thippayakonsilp and a group of Thai artists,  these breathtakingly, real-looking human figures of various charaters and replicas of important people are displayed in different sections such as the Great Buddhist Monks, Former Kings of the Chakri Dynasty, and One Side of Thai Life: Thai Chess, Thai Family, and Abolition of Slavery among many others. After that, visit Thai Soang village where the village is home to Thai Soang or Thai Soang Dum (they usually wear black dresses) or Lao Soang who migrated from Ban Non Prong, Phetchaburi province but still retains distinctive culture and tradition of their own. Be wowed by their exotic and meticulous handicrafts such as weaving and rattan wares.
After end of the tour travel to your hotel, check in and relax on your own time afterwards.
Note: Lunch and Dinner are on your own activities
Overnight in Nakorn Prathom

Day 05: Nakorn Prathom – Suphanburi by car (B/L)
Breakfast at hotel After breakfast, we will visit Phra Pathom Chedi National Museum where the museum gathered antiques from The Dvaravati culture during B.E.12-16 were kept in 2 floors Thai house. They were once stored in the veranda of Phra Pathom Chedi until B.E.2454 they were moved into a temple next to ubosot and was later called Phra Pathom Chedi National Museum. And then drive to Suphanburi province to visit Puhangnak formally known as “U Thong Tawaravadee Buddhist Site Stone Park”, is a part of Pu Muang forest park in U Thong province. This stone park is the ancient natural rock garden which is not below than 10,000 million years. It is generated by lava that was eroded by sunlight, wind and rain. After the erosion, the lava changed into several unique shapes depending on your imagination such as Queen of Nagas, three-head elephant, turtle, whale, monkey etc.  In the park, there is also a nature trail. And leave for Baan Kwai (Buffalo Village) this water buffalo preservation area not only contains a water buffalo ranch, but also features the authentic rural lifestyle of farmers in Thailand’s central region. Watch the daily activities of farmers such as rice-threshing, and explore traditional Thai homes on stilts. Various areas feature different types of folk knowledge such as traditional Thai medicine, traditional Thai massage, indigenous herbs, and Thai astrology. Visitors can also enjoy half-hour buffalo shows throughout the day. Next is visiting to Samchuk Market this Chinese community and old-fashioned market, complete with wooden shop houses, has retained its authentic Thai style, dating from a century ago. Visitors can explore the traditional shops, including a photography store that continues to use a century-old camera, an herbal drugstore, or enjoy tasting local sweets and sipping old-fashioned local-style coffee by the river. And then followed by visiting to Jok Local Textile Group – with Traditional patterns of Lao Si and Lao Krang Style the locals of Ban Thung Kan Lueang, Tambon Pa Sakae, having successfully passed down and preserved traditional ancient textile patterns and weaving methods, established the Lao Si-Lao Khrang Weaving Group. The group and the village of Ban Thung Kan Lueang are the only places in the province where the art of the Lao Si-Lao Khrang textile pattern has been kept alive. And then visiting to Bueng Chawak, this natural freshwater lake was renovated into a prime tourist destination and covers an expansive 1,080 acres. The lake was declared a wildlife sanctuary area in 1983, and its great variety of flora and fauna spurred the government to register Bueng Chawak as an important wetland under the Ramsar Convention in 1998.There are a large variety of tourist sight here, including aquariums, a crocodile farm, a botanical garden, recreated lion and tiger dens, a rabbit island and a local OTOP handicrafts center. For day-trippers and campers, there are also campgrounds and picnicking locations. Check in and stay at the Tree House.
Note: Dinner is on your own activities
Overnight in Suphanburi
 
Day 06: Suphanburi – Ayutthaya by car (B)
Breakfast at hotel After breakfast, we are departing for Ayutthaya Province and stop at the first place in the former Thailand ancient capital city in the past beginning with visiting to Ancient Palace, the Royal Palace or The ancient Palace is located near Wat Mongkol Borpit temple where the house of Thailand Seated largest bronze Buddha Image. At present, there is only the remains of the building’s base. Only Wat Phra Si Sanphet is there with the glamorous architecture. And next visit is Wat Yai Chaimongkon where is the large and high victory Chedi in Ayutthaya. Then next to Thai Boat Museum is a private museum located at Bang Ian Road opposite to Wat Mahataat. It is in the area of Ajarn Paitoon Khawmala who loves Thai boats and has a spiritual bond with boats and river since childhood. He was also a naval architecture teacher throughout his whole entire life at Shipbuilding Technical School. He built up this Thai Boat Museum to be a local wisdom study centre of Thai boats. After that, continue on to Wat Chaiwatthanaram One of the most visited historical site of Ayutthaya, Wat Chaiwattanaram rests on the bank of the Chao Phraya River, to the west of the city island. The temple was ordered to build in 1630 by King Prasat Thong to honor his mother, featuring the architectural style influenced by Angkor temple in Cambodia—its unique feature is a large, central prang (Khmer-style pagoda) surrounded by smaller prangs, symbolizing Mount Sumeru, the gods’ mountain according to Hindu belief. The lighting at night makes the temple even more exotic and beautiful. And then travel to Bang Pra In Summer Palace on a motor long tailed boat along the Chaopraya River. After tour return to your hotel in Ayutthaya and check in then relax on your own time afterwards.
Note: Lunch and Dinner are on your own activities
Overnight in Ayutthaya

Day 07: Ayutthaya City Tour Multiple Vehicles (B)
Breakfast at hotel We are waking up in the early morning on this day as we are going to visit Ayutthaya Hualor Morning Market to buy some foods in order to offer them to monks (Thai people say “Tak Bat”). Offering things to the monks, our subject want to make a merit to our relatives or ancestors who passed away. After offering, we then find a table to sit and order local coffees or teas to drink and eat some Chinese Donuts. And then return to our hotel on the Ayutthaya’s Tuk Tuk. At arrival at hotel, you can have breakfast at hotel’s restaurant or relax to have more energy for next sightseeing places awaiting you to explore it. At noon time, we are going to have a bicycle ride it to explore the rest of the temples where we have never been yet such as Wat Phutthai Sawan or the Monastery of Lord Buddha of the Heavens is located on the south bank of the Chao Phraya River in an area presently called Samphao Lom. Wat Ratchaburana or the temple of National Treasury excavation sited. And next to Wat Na Pramane or the temple of Burmese headquarter to sign agree for peace with Kingdom of Thailand. And then return to hotel.
Note: Lunch and Dinner are on your own activities
Overnight in Ayutthaya

Day 08: Ayutthaya – Pathum Thani – Nonthaburi by car (B)
Breakfast at hotel After breakfast, we are checking out and leave for Pathum Thani Province visiting to National Geological Museum, Pathumthani is under the care of Department of Mineral Resource which is one of the 12 projects according to Art, Culture and Science Institute The objective is to build this museum in honour of the occasion of His Majesty’s 50 year occasion to the throne and to be the center of conserving reference data and important sample in geology. Thai people can study and research about geology which plays important role in human living basis and country’s development. Department of Mineral Resource built these 4-and-a-half-storey building of 140,000 sqaure meters space on 5 rais (8,000 square meters). The museum is completed in 2000. The project cost was 419.5 million baht. And next is continuing on visiting to The National Memorial covering an area of nearly 15 acres, the National Memorial is under the supervision of the Armed Forces Education Department, Supreme Command Headquarters. It is a memorial extolling the heroic deeds of Thai forefathers who used their intellect, talent and lives to protect the Kingdom. It is also a museum promoting awareness of Thai history and major Thai battles, including the Thai military’s missions abroad in the Vietnam War and the Korean War, presented through dioramas photo galleries. Inside are displays depicting the evolution of military uniforms and insignias throughout history.  And then driving to Nonthaburi Province. Stop at Flower Distribution Center is located inside Soi Chang. Keep going straight for 200 meters and you will spot many stalls selling tree and flowers on the area of 120 acres and the shops that sell small size flowers and plants with a variety of colors and styles. Next, you will encounter the shops selling agricultural equipment and garden decorations as well as the gardener services. And followed by The Prathom-Nonthaburi Palace, it constructed with a mixture of Thai and European architecture long ago in 1919, this palace once belonged to Prince Juthathuttharadilok, son of the great King Chulalongkorn. And before we finish the tour on this day, we will visit The Museum of Nonthaburi is one of the local learning and resource centers and the building was once used as a city hall. This historical building was built from teak wood that adds much to its value in architecture. Later on, drive to hotel and check in then relax on your own time afterwards.
Note: Lunch and Dinner are on your own activities
Overnight in Nonthaburi Province

Day 09: Nonthaburi – Departure (B)
Breakfast at hotel Free on your own time until you will check out and transfer to Bangkok International Airport for your flight to next destination or home.
Note: Lunch and Dinner are on your own activities
End of our services

PRICE & INCLUDE

Price Included:
 Accommodation as mentioned based on twin sharing or similar one
 Tour and transportation as private air-con vehicle
 Meals as mentioned in the program (B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner)
 Entrance fees on the archaeological site mentioned in the itinerary
 Local English speaking guide
 All activities were stated in the program
 Travel insurance (required copy passport)
 Cool drink water during on tours
 Government tax & Service Charge
Price Excluded:
Package tour Not Includes:
• All the other things are not stated in the part of inclusions
• International flights
• Domestic Flight
• Telephone services
• Laundry services
• Personal Expenses
• Any drinks during lunch and dinner at a local restaurant are not mentioned
• Tips to a guide or driver if you like his or her services
• Late check out
• Early check in
• Peak period surcharge
• Visa fees to Thailand
• Any optional additional tours or activities during free time.
Remarks:
 All rates are quoted in US Dollars per person.
 Packages tour rates are Nett, non-commissionable.
 Child fare:
o Child (2-11 yrs) - 100% sharing room with 1 adult in Twin Room
o Child (2-11 yrs) - 80% sharing room with 2 adults with extra bed
o Child (2-11 yrs) - 50% sharing room with 2 adults without bed
 Other period of packages tour price, please contact us anytime.
 Confirmation of room & price are subject to space availability at the time of booking only.
 All rates are subject to change without prior notices.
 All above itinerary is flexible, depending on arrival or departure flights of passengers

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