This aerial photograph taken on November 4, 2023 shows tourists travelling aboard the popular"Floating train" taking photographs along the railway tracks during a stop in the middle of Pasak Jolasid Dam, Thailand’s biggest reservoir in Lopburi province. A lone boatman watched the spectacle of Thailand's so-called"floating train" as selfie-seeking passengers soaked up the water views after disembarking from carriages stopped on a narrow bridge.
Lotus ponds, jungles, temples and rice paddies zipped by as tourists in third class hung out the window and took pictures while enjoying the natural air conditioning. For most of the year, cattle graze underneath the bridge "but from October to January, the water is high on both sides which gives the impression that the train is floating on water," said long-time British expat, train enthusiast and travel blogger Richard Barrow.Barrow lamented the trip was only publicised in Thai language and not English so not many foreigners know about the unique experience.
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