THE FLOATING MARKET, the real deal
Well if you look at the floating market in general, they are nothing but street vendors on a boat. They cook, sell food and groceries, pots and pans etc. to people who live along Thai river front property owners. Some of the communities are large enough to make a living going to house to house. Then the tourist came and it became the show of everyday normal life of a Thai living on a silt house on their river front property. The idea that tourist needs to see this is a money thing and then there was more money to be made by selling tours to foriegners to see these vendors on boats. What gets me is in Pattaya, they made the village up like a amusement park such as Disney World. It's fake,built from the ground up but the other one near Bangkok was real everyday life. They had that in China and Venice before, but didn't make money from the tourist like the Thais' are making it an tourist...
