R+R in Bangkok

With our final itinerary giving us several free days in Bangkok during Songkran, we asked our friends at Habitat Thailand to give us suggestions for activities/day trips. They responded with this:

For R&R, many tourist attractions will be opened except on the 15th of April (please find the attached document for more details). And Songkran is about water, just note that you might get wet everywhere you go, malls will be open, many small shops and all offices and embassies will be closed. The best place to play for Songkran would be at Khao-san Road and Sanam-Luang.

Also, There are interesting towns/island near Bangkok, you might want to explore;

- Amphawa Floating market;http://www.amphawafloatingmarket.com/,

- Kanchanaburi: http://www.kanchanaburiguide.com/, ://www.kanchanaburi.com/english/,

- Ayuttaya; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayutthaya_Kingdom, http://www.ayutthaya.go.th/eng_travel.htm

- Samet Island, Rayong province; http://www.kosamet.net/information.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Samet

See our recent email for the attachments they refer to. We urge everyone to read the bkk.pdf file because it contains a wealth of information about various potential activities in and around Bangkok.

Please post to the blog or email us your thoughts on what most interests you. We plan to organize a few group outings (read: pay for and reserve in advance with the help of the Habitat Thailand office) while being sure to leave free time for individuals and/or small groups to do their own thing. We'd love your feedback before we make any executive decisions and we will be sure to notify the group whenever we have booked anything so that those who are already in country or are arriving early can try to avoid these sites.

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A Brief Clarification:

In Newsletter #3 (below) I meant to say about $5 USD when trying to estimate about how much people could expect to spend out of pocket / per day while on the trip. I'm sure you probably new I wasn't talking Thai baht there but I just wanted to be sure.