The floating market sounds very picturesque and must have been in it's original format but now is a haven for tourists. Bus loads are shipped in every day for this market which consequently caters to their need and no longer has unique handcrafts and necessities for day to day life but rather mass produced tourist junk for cheap, but still more than it is worth. Plus the canal you are transported on is dark and murky of questionable content. People still live along the canal, do their washing in it, swim in it. If the North Saskatchewan is undesirable to find yourself in then this would be many, many times worse. Yuck. Nice idea but not for me. It does bring to mind though the differences in how people live place to place.
After that we headed to Kanchanaburi, to the Jeath War Museum and to see the Bridge on the River Kwai. The museum is filled with all sorts of odd bits and pieces related to the war and the building of the death railway and bridge. Things like clocks, musical instruments, tools, mock ups of living quarters, a rail car used to transport the POWs, an original train, anything and everything. There is still a bridge there, not in use, but one of the many that has been built in it's place. After to WW II cemetery for allies who had died during the railway and bridge's construction.
It was an interesting, if long day in questionable transport. An interesting look at rural Thailand in between stops.
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