{"id":2453,"date":"2015-10-07T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T07:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T07:34:56","slug":"spending-week-end-amphawa-floating-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2453-spending-week-end-amphawa-floating-market","title":{"rendered":"Spending the week end at Amphawa floating market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is something\u00a0I often suggest on travel forums. Spending\u00a0the weekend in one of the homestays or guesthouses on the Amphawa floating market canal, it is the ideal formula to discover the Thai markets regardless if they are floating or installed on the rail track. And near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/visit-thailand\/amphawa-floating-market-amphawa-60\"><strong>Amphawa floating market<\/strong><\/a> there is a very surprising temple.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/amphawa-floating-market-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Amphawa\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday is held the <strong>Amphawa Floating Market<\/strong> (or <em>Amphawa Talat Naam<\/em>\u00a0in Thai) . The\u00a0market really\u00a0comes alive in the late afternoon but the shops in traditional wooden houses are open all day long. On one end of the canal,\u00a0there are\u00a0boats cooking for you all kinds of grilled or fried dishes and offering them for very cheap\u00a0prices. In the\u00a0shops along the banks you can find many things :\u00a0\u00a0clothes, souvenirs, handicrafts, jewelry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I advise you to stay\u00a0directly on the floating market canal. There are many homestays offerings\u00a0rooms that look a bit like\u00a0guesthouses. Personally, I have tested and approved<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/accommodation-thailand\/baan-rak-amphawa-home-of-love-amphawa-5626\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Baan Rak<\/em><\/a> (which literally means <em>&#8220;house of love&#8221;<\/em>). They have rooms with very comfortable beds basic bathroom with hot water. What&#8217;s nice there is that you can sit out on the terrace by the water for a drink or to eat. And\u00a0etween 6am and 7am, you will see the monks on\u00a0their morning offerings boat tour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4213\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4213 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/amphawa-monk-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Amphawa Thailand\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monk collecting offerings in Amphawa in the morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once installed, besides visiting the market, eat and go shopping, you have many possible visits we recommend you to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Visit the Damnoen Saduak floating market<\/strong>, the most famous and most visited in Thailand. We advise you to go there around\u00a08 am before the rush. You can pay\u00a030 minutes boat tours for 300-400 THB per boat, but there are also longer formulas. Visiting the main canal by feet\u00a0is also nice.<br \/>The easiest way to get there from Amphawa, is to take a tuk-tuk or a taxi (they will probably not\u00a0put the counter but mai pen rai), it will cost you around 150 THB. Otherwise, there are songthaews going there.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/amphawa-thailand-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Damnoen Saduak\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_4215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4215\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4215 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/damnoen-saduak-floating-market1-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Damnoen Saduak\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floating Market Damnoen Saduak<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li><strong>Visit Tha Kha Floating Market<\/strong> which is more traditional but smaller. Here we are in a much less touristy market that I personally prefer. There is a songtahew that can get there from Amphawa but you have to catch it on the main road outside Amphawa\u00a0so it is easier to\u00a0take a tuk-tuk <em>(150 THB from\u00a0Damnoen Saduak or Amphawa)<\/em>.<br \/><figure id=\"attachment_4216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4216\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4216 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marche-flottant-tha-kha-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Tha Kha Floating Market\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tha Kha Floating Market<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/visit-thailand\/mae-klong-railway-market-amphawa-62\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Visit the Mae Klong railway market<\/strong> <\/a>that folds irs stalls every time a train comes. A unique and amazing thing to watch. There are 8 trains per day. Songthaew number 333 connects Amphawa floating market aand Mae Klong market <em>(8 THB)<\/em>.<br \/><em>(Note that the rail track is in renovation so there are no train until november 2015)<\/em><br \/><figure id=\"attachment_4218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4218\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4218 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/railroad-market-mae-klong1-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Mae Klong Market\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mae Klong Railway Market<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li><strong>Take the tour boat to see the fireflies at night\u00a0<\/strong>from\u00a0Amphawa floating market. You will see the famous fiireflies illuminating the trees. <em>(60 THB per person &#8211;\u00a0about one\u00a0hour)<\/em>\n<p><\/li>\n<li><strong>Take\u00a0the5 temples boat tour<\/strong> that leaves from Amphawa market. If the first four temples are not that interesting, it allows you to navigate on\u00a0Mae Klong River and especially to discover the last temple of the boat ride, <strong>Wat Bang Kung<\/strong>, trapped in the roots of a banyan tree. <em>(the ride costs THB 50 per person and lasts more than 1:30)<\/em>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_4217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4217\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4217 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wat-bang-kung-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Wat Bang Kung Amphawa\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wat Bang Kung<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are other tours boats and other temples to see but if you already do all that, your two days will already be nice ! <strong>Good weekend in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/cities\/amphawa\" target=\"_blank\">Amphawa<\/a> !<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is something\u00a0I often suggest on travel forums. Spending\u00a0the weekend in one of the homestays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visit-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}