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DAY 04 BANGKOK Meals included: Breakfast At 7:30 AM depart Bangkok and drive through rice paddies and salt fields. At approximately 9:15 AM board a speed boat and cruise through winding canals. Visit the local floating market at Damnern Saduak where farmers congregate on canals each morning in produce-laden boats. This is Thailand’s most authentic floating market. Afterwards visit the Railway market, a unique attraction because of the fact that a train literally runs through the market 8 times a day. It is a fascinating sight watching the market vendors selling their goods laid out on both of the railway tracks and then suddenly removing them as each train passes--and then placing all of their items back as they were before. This afternoon visit Jim Thompson’s House. Jim Thompson was the legendary American architect- entrepreneur who settled in Thailand after WW II and almost single-handedly revived the moribund silk industry. No trace was found of Thompson after he disappeared in 1967 while hiking near Cameron Highlands in Malaysia. Jim's maze of seven Thai-style teak houses has since been converted into a small private museum filled with his priceless collection of Asian antiques, pottery and curiosities. A small gift shop sells fine reproductions of Vessantara Jataka and Brahma Jati horoscopes. Overnight: Mandarin Oriental Hotel – Deluxe Room