Menam

The boat set sail from the three-star Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Bankok Menam Riverside hotel.

“Focus: MENAM,” as it’s officially called, serves dual purposes.

His brother Niger too, and all the floods In which the full-form'd maids of Afric lave Their jetty limbs; and all that from the tract Of woody mountains stretch'd through gorgeous Ind Fall on Cormandel's coast, or Malabar; From Menam's orient stream, that nightly shines With insect lamps, to where aurora sheds On Indus' smiling banks the rosy shower; All, at this bounteous season, ope their urns, And pour untoiling harvest o'er the land.

A Cochin China rooster, lank and thin, Or something indigestible from Tonquin, For a big, sharp-set Wolf, are snacks, not meals; So down the sparkling river Lupus steals, Quite uninvited, but intent on forage, Fronting the fleecy flocks with wondrous courage; For whether in the Southdowns, or Siam, By the near Medway, or the far Menam, Your Wolf is most courageous—with your Lamb!

The only noteworthy exception is the Siamese branch, which forms the bulk of the population in the Menam basin.