CLASSIC THAILAND – 10 days

DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN BANGKOK

Welcome to Bangkok, Thailand. Upon arrival, your tour guide greets you at Bangkok Airport before accompanying you on your private transfer to your downtown hotel. Check in and spend the remainder of the day to relax or stroll around yourself to get acquainted with the city. Overnight in Bangkok.

DAY 2: CITY TOUR OF BANGKOK

After having breakfast at the hotel, meet your private guide again to start the city tour of Bangkok. You will start the tour with a boat trip on Chao Phraya River. Along the boat ride, you are able to learn the water life of the Nonthaburi residents. After that, visit Wat Arun which is well-known as the Temple of Dawn. This is one of the most popular sites in Bangkok capital. Followed by a short transfer to Grand Palace. Here, you will visit a complex of buildings which is located at the heart of Bangkok. The palace has been the official residence of the Kings of Siam (and later Thailand) since 1782. Inside the Grand Palace complex is Wat Phra Kaeo or Temple of the Emerald Buddha – the most beautiful and sacred Buddhist temple in Thailand. Next, you will visit Wat Pho – the temple of reclining Buddha. This temple has a long list of credits: The oldest and largest temple in Bangkok, the longest reclining Buddha and the largest collection of Buddha images in Thailand, the first public education institution.    
Before ending the day, you will drive to Pak Klong Talaat Flower market to see Thailand’s exotic flora with many species of orchids. Overnight at a hotel in Bangkok.

DAY 3: AMPHAWA FLOATING MARKET & MAEKLONG RAILWAY MARKET

Visit Samut Songkhram, a coastal province at the mouth of the Mae Klong River where you will visit a Salt Fields. This area is the biggest producer of brine salt in Thailand. After that, you will continue on driving down for the Maeklong Railway Market. This is a unique market that is held every day literally on the rail tracks. It is very interesting to experience the action minutes before the train passes through the market. As the siren sounds, everyone - the shoppers, vendors will hop off tracks to make way for the passing train.  

Around 15:00 PM, you will take a 1-hour comfortable long-tail motor boat trip along the Mae Klong River and canals. Witnessing the spectacular and colorful scenery of Thai life along the river banks. The first stop on this pleasant journey was Wat Bang Kung. This is a historically important location because of a battle between King Taksin’s forces and the invading Burmese. A short distance away we stopped at another temple. This one was called Wat Bangkae Noi. In the main chapel you can find quite a breathtaking view. The walls and ceiling had some amazing teakwood carvings. These depicted the life and teachings of the Lord Buddha. After this we headed back to our starting point at the Amphawan Floating Market. Move around the market to try some local food, buy a souvenir or just to hunt some interesting photographs. Get transferred back to your hotel in Bangkok at the end of the day.

DAY 4: BANGKOK – CHIANG MAI

Get picked up and transferred to the airport for the morning flight to Chiang Mai, the old capital of Lanna Kingdom. On arrival, you will be met by your local tour guide and driver in Chiang Mai who will escort you to the hotel.    

In the afternoon, drive to visit Wat Phrathad Doi Suthep, which is the most sacred temple in Northern Thailand, containing a holy relic of Lord Buddha, with a challenging flight of over 300 steps, flanked by enormous mythological Nagas. A panoramic view of the city can be seen from here as well as Sunset in evening and listen to the Buddhist monk chanting.

DAY 5: CHIANG MAI – ELEPHANT CAMP

As usual, Breakfast is at the hotel. Meet your guide again and start the day tour with a short drive to visit one of the popular Elephants Camp, where you can see the Elephants at work. You have a chance to ride the elephants crossing the river into the forest. Then return by Oxcart to the elephant village to have lunch. After lunch, enjoy a bamboo rafting adventure along the river for around 45 minutes. Onwards to an orchid farm where there are many beautiful species of orchid. And after that going back to the hotel and free at leisure.    

DAY 6: FULL DAY DOI THATANON NATIONAL PARK

Today you will enjoy a full day, privately guided tour of the Doi Thatanon National Park. This is where Thailand's highest mountain is located, at 2565 meters above sea level. Complex mountain ranges and mild climate characterize an area with moist and dense forest which is the source of important tributaries of Mae Ping River. Various streams descend, forming beautiful waterfalls such as Vachiratharn and Mae Klang. On the way back to the hotel from the National Park, you will stop to visit Karen hill tribe villages.

DAY 7: CHIANG MAI – KHAO LAK, PHUKHET

The beach part of your holiday starts today. After a morning at leisure, your private driver collects you from your hotel to take you to the local airport for your internal flight to Phuket, a journey of around two hours. At Phuket airport our driver will be waiting to take you to your lovely beach accommodation on the white sands of Khao Lak, a journey of about one and a half hours. Our beach suggested resort –Ramanda has a fantastic location along the beach from local restaurants, bars and markets.

DAY 8: KHAO LAK, PHUKHET

Day at leisure to relax at your hotel. Overnight in Khao Lak Phukhet.

DAY 9: KHAO LAK, PHUKET

Free at leisure on the beach and enjoy the resort’s facilities.

DAY 10: PHUKET– DEPARTURE

    Fly back to Bangkok