The D-day, Peach went to pick us up at our hotel and it was where the adventure begins.
MAHASAWAT AGRO TOURISM
On top of beautiful islands, beaches and temples, Thailand offers some of the most intrinsically Thai aspects of its culture – its rural and agricultural traditions and close village communities. Thailand is known as a kingdom of farmers, and its rice, silk and food products are recognised all over the world.
Peach took us to the canal in Nakhon Pathom to take a small boat. While we were waiting our boat, we had the chance to feed the canal’s catfishes (it is really something you should experience once : These river monsters are so abundant that with enough pellets of food it seems you could walk over the water on a bridge of thrashing, silvery bodies).
Once one the boat, our first canal stop was in a beautiful lotus farm. Anyone who spends time in Thailand knows the lotus to be a devotional flower and a symbol of spiritual purity. But lotus flowers have their uses in food and medicine and grow all year round making them a useful crop for local farmers. Peach told us how it is cultivated and we had the chance to pick some of them and prepare it the way it is prepared to be a gift in temples.