Visit Khlong Bang Luang Floating Market (Bangkok)

Presentation Khlong Bang Luang Floating Market

g_translate Thai name : ตลาดน้ำคลองบางหลวง

push_pin GPS : 13.730212,100.463772 (See on the map)

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Despite its name, it is no longer a floating market because there are no vendors on boats, whether they are sailing or their boats are moored. The Klong Bang Luang Market remains, however, a nice stretch of canal to escape the hubbub of central Bangkok and have a bite to eat or drink a coffee or other non-alcoholic beverage in one of the restaurants or cafes and stalls with small workshops for making necklaces and bracelets and wood paintings, including that of its famous Artist House (Baan Silapin in Thai).

It is rather recommended to come to the Klong Bang Luang Floating Market on weekends because during the week it is very very quiet and not everything is open.

Personally, I even recommend that you come and sleep there by spending the night of Saturday or Sunday in the Bang Luang House homestay, it is exotic, pleasant and in the morning you will attend the monk's offering collection tour by boat, a moment out of time.

The Khlong Bang Luang market and its Artist House, is still on the program of some boat tours on the klongs of Bangkok, in particular those which leave on Saturdays and Sundays from Taling Chan floating market at 1 p.m. but be there at least 1 hour before to be sure to have a place. They allow you to attend the traditional hand puppet show known as Hun Krabok which is given at Wat Kamphaeng Bangchak, a temple located in the main parking lot of Bang Luang market at 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays (before this show was at the Artist House).

Practical information about Khlong Bang Luang Floating Market

I did not check but some sources indicate that it the place is closed on Wednesday but that there would be a nice local market instead.

How to get to Khlong Bang Luang Floating Market ?

The easiest way to get to the Khlong Bang Luang Floating Market by public transport is to take the MRT to Bang Phai station. You have all the information and maps on the transport in Bangkok page. You will then either have a good ten minutes walk to cover the remaining kilometer or, if you find one, the possibility of taking a motorbike taxi to get there (10 THB). There is also, on weekends, a Songhtaew service that connects the Ta Phra MRT station to the canal part of the market but it is not necessarily easy to take if you are not used to it. It is easier to take at the end of your visit to reach the metro. It is waiting on the other side of the small white bridge just before Wat Khuha Sawan.

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