Thailand cultural exploration and beach relaxing 09-days

DAY 1 ANGKOK - ARRIVAL

Upon arrival at Bangkok airport, after clearing all customs procedures, please proceed to the exit gate and look for your guide who will be waiting at the lobby, holding the signboard with your name on it. Your guide will come to meet you and transfer you to the hotel to check-in and relax. Overnight in Bangkok. 

DAY 2 BANGKOK – CITY EXPLORER BY LOCAL TRANSPORTATION (B,L)

Breakfast at the hotel. Be greeted by your English speaking guide and then start Bangkok City Tour. Today you will experience traveling around Bangkok by local transportations. You will be taken via a few minutes walk to the nearest BTS station and then take a 15 minutes to ride Sapan Taksin station. Arrive at Sapan Taksin, experience a funny Chao Phraya Express ferry boat ride to Ratchawong pier. Stroll around the Chinese community and when you are trying to make your way through the hundreds of shops selling everything from toys to chopsticks and from typewriters to car engines. Different sections have different products and your guide leads you from one alley to the next. Next, we will be traveling by MRT, another mass transit to visit the wholesale flower market, Pak Klong Talad. Continue your trip to visit Ban bat Community, see the process of making monk’s bowl, they will do the bowl every day except Sundays. You may need to have lunch here, the guide can recommend a nice local restaurant and the meal to be paid on spot by your own account. After lunch, hopping a ferry boat from the nearby pier to Pratunam pier. On the way back to your hotel, you will be walking through Pratunam Market, a major market in Bangkok selling clothes, shoes, and fashion accessories at wholesale prices. Enter the small alleys and jam-packed small streets and you’ll find yourself in the middle of a clothes-maze. Prices are very cheap, and most shops offer retail prices for single pieces. Arrive at your hotel, rest of the day will be free at leisure.

DAY 3 FULL RIVER KWAI EASY (B,L)

Pick up from major hotels in Bangkok downtown area. Depart to Kanchanaburi province (128 km. to the west of Bangkok). Arrive in Kanchanaburi province. Visit Thailand–Burma Railway Centre an interactive museum, information, and research facility dedicated to presenting the history of the Thailand– Burma Railway. The fully air-conditioned center offers the visitor an educational and moving experience. Visit Allied War Cemetery which is memorial to some 6000 allied prisoners of war (POWs) who perished along the death railway line and were moved post-war to this eternal resting place. Visit the world-famous Bridge over the River Kwai, a part of the Death Railway constructed by Allied POWs.Lunch at a local restaurant. Take a historic on Death Railway Train passing over original wooden viaduct constructed by Allied POWs. Journey back to Bangkok. Arrive at Bangkok and transfer to hotels. 

DAY 4 BANGKOK – PHUKET BY FLIGHT (B)

Breakfast at hotel and transfer to Bangkok airport for your departure flight to Phuket. Arrive at Phuket airport, be greeted by our representative and transfer to you hotel.

DAY 5 PHUKET – FULL DAY VISIT PHI PHI AND KHAI ISLAND (B,L)

Breakfast in hotel. Pick up from your hotel. After a morning picks up, board on a speedboat depart from Phuket. Arrive Phi Phi Ley, sightseeing around Maya Bay where the movie "The Beach " was filmed,Pileh Bay, Loh Samah Bay, and Viking Cave. Visit Monkey Beach for your snorkeling time. Continue to Phi Phi Don for buffet lunch served in a restaurant on the beach. Enjoy swimming or relaxing the depart Phi Phi Don, stop at Koh Khai Nok, ample time for snorkeling, swimming or relaxing until return to Phuket. Overnight in Phuket. 

DAY 6 PHUKET – FULL DAY VISIT CORAL ISLAND BY SPEEDBOAT (B,L)

Breakfast in hotel. Enjoy the best snorkeling at Coral Island, enjoy swimming in the turquoise water or relaxing on the white sandy beach. Enjoy more snorkeling, swimming before a return trip. Pick up from your hotel. Enjoy the white sand beach & turquoise water as you partake in various sea activities like a Sea walking, Scuba diving, Banana boat, and Parasailing (your own expenses). After lunch at a local restaurant, back to the beach for more of the leisure life. Return to Phuket Pier and transfer to your hotel. Overnight in Phuket. 

DAY 7 PHU KET FREE & EASY (B)

Breakfast at the hotel. Free time at your own arrangement. Overnight in Phuket. 

DAY 8 PHU KET FREE & EASY (B)

Breakfast at the hotel. Free time at your own arrangement. Overnight in Phuket. 

DAY 9 PHUKET DEPARTURE (B)

Breakfast at the hotel. Free time until transferring to the airport for flight to the next destination / back home. Tour ends. END OF SERVICES!