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Step back to the Siam of King Rama V: a meticulously recreated 1905 town where you change into period dress, swap modern baht for old-style coins, and eat, shop, and wander among wooden houses and canals as the country looked a century ago.
A vast sandbar at the mouth of the Mae Klong River, famous for its colonies of razor clams — at low tide locals wade out to harvest them, and a strip of seafood shacks serves the catch within metres of where it was dug.
A fresh market that does business directly on a live railway track — and several times a day, as a train rolls through inches from the produce, vendors calmly fold back their awnings and pull in their baskets, then reset the moment it passes.
