Day trips from Bangkok: 6 epic adventures

Some day trips repay the early train. Plenty don't. These 6 day trips from Bangkok are the ones that earn the hours, and each comes with an honest note on what you're really getting.

Book a TripFloating & Train Market Tour★ 4.9 · from €21Countryside train ride past a market on the tracks, then a longtail boat through a floating market. Directions
Book a TripErawan Falls & Kanchanaburi★ 4.6 · from €46WWII history at the JEATH museum and bridge, then swimming at a tiered jungle waterfall. Directions
Book a TripPattaya & Koh Larn Day Trip★ 4.6 · from €46Wooden Sanctuary of Truth temple, then a speedboat to Koh Larn island for beach time. Directions
Book a TripAyutthaya Temples Day Trip★ 4.7 · from €29Four ruined royal temples from Siam's former capital, plus a Thai buffet lunch. Directions
Maeklong Railway Market★ 4.5 · Free (train ~10฿)The market that folds itself away eight times a day as a full-size train rolls through the stalls: umbrellas snap back, baskets slide, and thirty seconds later commerce resumes on the tracks like nothing happened. Directions
Wat Sam Phran (Dragon Temple)★ 4.4 · Free (donation)A shocking-pink 17-story tower with a colossal dragon coiled around it: one of Thailand's strangest sacred buildings, 40 minutes west and still barely on the tourist radar. Directions

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