Market · Amphawa, Amphawa District, Samut Songkhram
Amphawa Floating Market
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Amphawa Floating Market is a canal market at Amphawa in Samut Songkhram Province, on a canal lined with teak shop-houses that open onto the water.
Why go
Amphawa Floating Market is in Amphawa, Samut Songkhram Province, outside Bangkok. A TAT Newsroom feature (October 2014, repeated in a July 2020 TAT market round-up) describes it as a market on a canal whose banks are lined with teak shop-houses that open to the water, where seafood cooked on boats is handed up to diners on the bank. A 2020 TAT feature on Samut Songkhram names other floating markets in the province, among them Tha Kha, Bang Noi and Don Manora; those are separate markets and not this record. Boat tours, market days and hours are not stated here; check before you go.
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