Floating markets were the theme: colourful photos showed widely-smiling ladies under broad-brimmed hats, paddling boats in packed canals, and selling exotic foods and fruit.

IT’S 11.30am on a Saturday and trade at Maeklong Railway Market is in full swing. Shoppers jostle for space and duck under awnings as they make their way between stalls loaded with ripe mangoes, fiery chillies, salted mackerel.

A sight which is also in the list of the “official” unseen Thailand sight is the temple Wat Bang Kung in Amphawa district, Samut Songkhram. The main attraction of the temple is the chapel overgrown by a Banyan tree.