Welcome to Thai Cooking Tours

Day 1: Bangkok - Outskirts (B, L, D)
Meet your guide at Bangkok airport. Your guide will ensure you are accompanied to the night's accommodation. At the accommodation (a functioning rice farm) you will have to time to see how rice grows and, if it takes your francy, participate in paddy life.
If you wish the guide will arrange for you to get transport into Bangkok if you would like to look around.
All meals will be supplied at the accommodation.
Overnight: Lam Sai homestay or other if requested

Day 2: Bangkok (B, L, D)
Breakfast will be provided at the accommodation and you will be introduced into Thai food culture. Get an understanding of what Thai's eat and when they eat it. Thailand offers many different regions with many different food cultures and the chefs will introduce you to the various styles of curries, ingredients and how they relate to the different regions. You will be helping to cook lunch while learning the basics of Thai food and culture.
The afternoon will be spent touring the fantastic Grand Palace (remember your long pants and covered shoulders or you will have to borrow the Grand Palace's stylish garments), a Tok Tok Ride to Wat Poh and the Reclining Buddha.
Settle into your new inner city accommodation and the evening can be spent exploring any of the many delights Bankok has to offer. Our guide will help you to choose your evening's entertainment and assist you in experiencing this magical city.
Overnight: Lam Sai homestay or other if requested

Day 3: Bangkok (B, L, D)
After an early breakfast you will go to Lumphini Park that is one of the very few green spaces in Bangkok (a city with the least amount of green space per capita in the world). Here you will be introduced to the local fauna and homo sapiens participating in their daily convelecance (early morning dancing and Thai Chi in the park).
From Lumphini Park you will have the first real Bangkok market experience. You will go to a local market and mix with the locals; mums, dads, chefs all buying their daily fair from the market. You will be refreshing your knowledge of Thai ingredients and seeing them in the wild. The chef will show you around the market and pick up the day's basket for the late morning's cooking experience. If you see something you like, we can pick it up and cook this as one of the items for the day's menu.
After a late lunch we will go to Jim Thompson's house by local canel transport. THis local transport takes you off Chao Phraya river and into the channels that earned Bangkok the title of 'Venice of the East'. Jim Thompson was the foremost figure in bringing Thai silk to the world. Jim Thompson's house is a homage to the man but also an excellent example of Thai architecture and grace. The examples of Thai silk and clothing design in the museum and shop are the best way to gain an insight into Thai life outside of the flee markets and malls.
Dinner will be taken at Bangkok's most famous Pad Thai restaurant near the Grand Palace and Government house.
A quick trip up the road to Amphawa to settle into the night's accommodation and bein the best place for an early morning cruise down the river for the first floating market experience.
Overnight: Suns Homestay or other if requested

Day 4: Amphawa (B, L, D)
Get up early so 'Sai Bhart' (make a food offering) to the Monks on the river as they float down on their boats and pray at your door step.
After breakfast it's off to Maeklong Railway Market where you will pickup the day's ingredients.
At Maeklong Railway Market is on a live railway line, vendors set their stalls along the railroad tracks, quickly pulling back their awnings and goods to let the trains pass, a commotion that occurs several times a day. Marvel at this amazing interaction between the train and the vendors (and tourists), everything quickly returning to normal after the train has squeezed through the market.
After you have inhaled to let the train pass you will go back to the accommodation to prepare lunch and get your energy up for a tour around a lychie farm, a temple within a tree and then off to Amphawa Floating Market to take a tranquil evening cruise down the river with the stall holders making and selling their goods in the boats and enjoying the glow worms down the river.
Overnight: Suns Homestay or other if requested

Day 5: Damnoen Saduak (B, L, D)
Travel to Damnoen Saduak Floating Market to buy the day's ingredients on the river from the market vendors floating up and down the market. Cook the day's lunch in an active palm sugar farm, see how one of the main Thai ingredients is produced and collected. You can watch one of the farmers climbing (more like running) up the palm. You will see long boat building and repair before making your way back down the river and to the elephant camp to enjoy time with elephants and, if you wish, ride one.

Day 6: Bangkok (B, L)
In the morning you’ll roll back into Thailand’s captivating capital via Thailand's largest Pagoda, Nakhon Pathom.
A little more history from Thailand's wax museum that will explain the past Kings and their place in the history of Thailand. We will then make our way back into Bangkok to experience the famous Chatuchak Weekend Market (JJ Market). The market is full of designers, local food, and tourist souvenirs. We will part ways, swap email addresses, link up on Facebook and promise to keep in touch.