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Amphawa Floating market

18 April 2009 3 Comments

Amphawa is a district of Samut Songkhram Province, located slightly inland at the northwestern tip of the Bay of Bangkok. It is famous for his Floating market in afternoon. In fact, the market was closed for a while because of the quickly development of the land transportation.
However, the district office would like to improve some of geographical landmarks to attract the tourists. And then, the Floating market was awaked and revive again….

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Amphawa Floating Market is an afternoon floating market by the canal near Wat Amphawan Chetiyaram. the Amphawa Canal is occupied by vendors who pack their boats with many things especially tradictional products.

Khun Ya port

Lively bridge at Amphawa Floating market

Open time

Friday 03:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Weekend 12:00 PM – 10.00 PM

Access

We can get in the market through 2 ways :

By cars
From Samut Songkhram province, take the highway number 325 in the direction of Damnoen Saduak and King Rama II Memorial Park Fair around 6 Kilometers before the traffic lights intersection, you must turn left and go through to Amphawa, then turn left again to get in the Floating market. You can park your car at the district office.

By bus
From Southern Terminal of Bangkok
Line 996 Bangkok-Damnoen, the bus pass the market
Line 976 Bangkok-Samut Songkhram, at the Samut Songkhram Terminal, take the bus line 333 Mae Klong – Amphawa- Bang Nokkwake and you can get in the Market

Thanks for the information from maeklongtoday.com

Center of floating commerce