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BANGKOK DAY THREE!

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We had a BIG tour scheduled for today—one that we had to set an alarm to wake up to—UGH, never like alarm days!  But, would you believe, we were WIDE eyed and BUSHY tailed hours before said alarm was due to go off!  Mmmmmmm, that meant lots of coffee time for us! On the agenda for our third full day in Bangkok was the floating market and train market!  In all the times we’ve been here, we have never taken this tour!  We were excited! The tour company picked us up at our condo and after about an hour drive, we stopped for a quick look at the Bankalong Salt farm.  What looked similar to rice paddies were actually salt fields! This was where we boarded the train that drove us to the market! The first official stop of today’s tour was the MAEKLONG TRAIN STATION.  OMG!  Can you say utter CHAOS, INSANITY, HAVOC?  Words (even these words) cannot begin to describe this market.   Merchants line the train tracks with their merchandise and whenever a tr...