Huai Khwang Night Market

Huai Khwang Night Market is located at the corner of Ratchada road and Pracharat Bamphen road, a short distance walk from the Huai Khwang MRT station. The market covers more than 2km stretch of road starting from Pracha Songkro road.

Huai Khwang Market is open 24 hours to serve the local community. Drawn by cheap housing  and lower cost of living, many university students and mid-low incomer workers are living in this area.  You can buy grocery ranging from fresh fruits, vegetables, medicines, meats, seafood, or have a meal at anytime. But for a tourist, the best time to visit is at night especially if you are still energetic at late night.  Huai Khwang night market is not the place to buy souvenirs or clothing but is definitely a great place if you wanted a taste of the local Thais night life.

Amphawa Floating Market

Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is the most popular floating market in Thailand.  I visited the market back in 2004 and fell in love with it. No further introduction is needed since the tourist can easily pick up a daily tour package to  Damnoen Saduak floating from any local tour agency.  

The  floating market which I would like to introduce  is the Amphawa Floating Market.   This authentic floating market is gaining popularity among the frequent visitor to Bangkok over the last couple of years.

Amphawa floating market is located within 10 kilometres of the famous Damnoen Saduak. Unlike tourist infested Damnoen Saduak, visitors at Amphawa are mostly local.  Unlike Damnoen Saduak which is a morning market, Amphawa only pick up its momentum in the weekend afternoon.  Since it is less known to the foreign tourists and only caters for the weekend crowd, there are only a few tour agents operating a tour to Amphawa. For season traveler, an option is hopping onto a mini van in the vicinity of Victory Monument that goes to Amphawa on a fixed interval.

The Amphawa canal is lined with store fronts that sell an eclectic mix of old-fashioned toys, artsy postcards, cutesy clothing and souvenirs. while nearer to the water, canal-side seating patrons order, receive and consume the delicious Thai food from the floating hawkers.

Since the market is only open during the weekends, there are not many tour agents offering a package tour to Amphawa. You may pick up a tour package from the following agents :

Canary Travel ( http://canarytravelthailand.com/ ) operates in Khaosan road
Yusabay ( http://yusabaybkk.pixnet.net/blog ) Mandarin speaking agent located in Thonglor.