Amphawa Floating Market

Travelers who visit to Bangkok, Thailand commonly visit Damnoen Saduak floating market to see the old-style merchants touting their wares from small boats floating on the river. For an genuine Thai floating market experience though, escape Damnoen Saduak and it’s throngs of western tourists and, instead, head out of Bangkok to Amphawa Floating Market – an immense floating market an hour outside Thailand’s capital city.  At Aphawa you’ll experience the ‘real deal’ and not a market just put on for tourists and their money.

How to Get to Amphawa – Amphawa Floating Market is in Samut Songkram Province, just over an hour outside Bangkok. The best way to get there is to hail a taxi and tell the driver where you want to go.  For around 1,000 baht ($30) you and many friends can arrive in air conditioned style. With tours to Damnoen Saduak tourist floating market costing $35 each, promptly you can see what a great deal this is.