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TalingChan Floating Market, Bangkok
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| Located on the canal: Khlong Chak Phra (คลองชักพระ) in front of the district office. It is opened only on weekends from about 8:30 to 18:00. If you have a chance to be here, should not miss taking a boat tour. The tour include sigth-seeing of Thai house along the river, orchid farm, temples, etc. Fees for taking a half-day boat tour is 90 Bht/adult, 50 Bht/child and free of charge for child aged below 2. Only on Sunday, there is a special boat tour: 13.00-16.00 hrs at 120 Bht/adult and 60 Bht/child: Route is the normal route plus Snake Farm (Thonburi), Wat Paknam (หลวงพ่อสด), etc.
This is a new attraction since floating markets, an old way of life of the Thai people, had vanished entirely from Bangkok for quite a long time.
Goods includes noodle, desserts, seasonal fruits, and vegetables, as well as fish are sold from boats.
Khun Pu, the pier manager was interviewed with Thai-Tour.com that he just renovated in June 08. He plan to change the outlook of the market to reflect the old Thai life-style like other old markets. We shall guide you by our photos below what is interesting here.
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Recommended nearby hotels:
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Paya Palazzo
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Set on the banks of the Chao Phraya River in the heart of Old Bangkok, Paya Palazzo has a UNESCO building, dating back 100 years.
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2008-09-10 12:57:18
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Thai Tour
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 Railway beside the market.
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2008-09-10 12:58:30
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Thai Tour
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 The on-land market in front of the district office.
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2008-09-10 12:59:49
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Thai Tour
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 Boats and pier, the hightlighted interesting places. A plenty of choices for your favorite food.
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2008-09-10 13:00:50
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Thai Tour
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 food, fruits and desserts
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2008-09-10 13:04:15
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Thai Tour
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 The real Thai life-style on the river.
rarely find anywhere in Thailand now.
It was reflected since the time Sir John Bowring, Queen Victoria’s Governor of Hong Kong, came to Bangkok in 1855 to sign the important trading treaty between Siam and England he wrote to His Sovereign ‘The Highways of Bangkok are not streets and roads but rivers and canals.” It was those comments that lead to the city being referred to as “The Venice of the East”
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2008-09-10 13:10:39
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Thai Tour
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 Here, the original Thai-style houses beside the canal are found.
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2008-09-10 13:16:33
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Thai Tour
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 one and two-storey houses with a private pier for a boat park. The river has been the main communication route for people here till now.
In the past, boat consumes only human energy with a paddle. There is no much air and water pollution.
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2008-09-10 13:20:06
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Thai Tour
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 An old temple tour, Wat Koh (วัดหลวงพ่อดำ) a buddha image with over 700 years.
If you have enough time, this temple is very interesting.
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2008-09-10 13:21:24
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Thai Tour
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 Feeding fish with bread from your own hands at Wat Paknam. Another hightlight for tourists.
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2008-09-10 13:23:45
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Thai Tour
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 Vanda orchid farm is the major hightlight for both Thai and foreign tourists.
Orchid is for sale with a cheaper price from the farm owner. Taking a flower photo is more interesting for me.
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2008-09-10 13:29:50
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Thai Tour
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 Forget to tell about other kinds of orchid in addition to Vanda. Cattleya is also found here.
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2008-09-10 13:30:27
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Thai Tour
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 and others
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2008-09-10 13:32:02
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Thai Tour
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 Flowers from other farms can be bought at the market (on-land).
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2008-09-10 13:41:47
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Thai Tour
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How to get there:
By Bus:
Por Or 79 arriving at the market,
40, 42, 57, 68, 80, ปอ. 68, 80, and 91
drop at Bang Khunnon intersection and take a mini-bus at Wat Poo Taen-Railway or Macro-Wat Thong.
For more information, pls call: 0-2424-5448, 0-1701-2565
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2008-09-25 22:43:13
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Thai Tour
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For myself, hightlight of the trip is taking a tour boat more interesting than the market itself.
If you want to see Thailand floating market, it is not neccessary to get to Damnern Saduak floating market in Ratchburi. On the boat, you can touch the real Thai traditional life-style on the river. How they live and trave by the boat.
Here, Talingchan Floating Market is only half a hour from the center of Bangkok (Silom).
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2008-09-27 01:15:38
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TT
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As I know you may hire a boat tour from Tha Chang (the ferry pier near the Grand Palace).
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2008-10-04 01:35:32
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nan
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The price of boat tour for half day should be around 1400 - 1800 Baht.
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2008-10-06 15:10:00
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nan
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 Most of tourists who missed Damnoensaduak floating market in Ratchaburi, would come here instead. It is nearer and more convenient than in Ratchaburi.
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2008-10-20 12:32:01
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TT
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People will be crowed in every weekend.
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2008-12-07 17:18:36
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TT
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This place is highly recommended if you're finding a traditional Thai life style, dating back in the last 30 years.
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2012-04-06 00:09:53
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