Khlong Lat Mayom & Taling Chan Local Floating Markets Tour (SHA Plus)
Description
Not only the Thai love this place, but tourists also do. You will enjoy sightseeing the scenery of local community along canal. What is more, varieties of Thai foods, Thai dessert, and seasonal fruits grown up by local gardeners are there for you! Khlong Lat Mayom is becoming a famous destination in Bangkok. You will enjoy tranquil local life in busy Bangkok, I'm sure this place will impress you! Eating is a must when visiting floating markets. There are many types of Thai food in reasonable price ready for you to try. It's like a food heaven!
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Khlong Lat Mayom is one of the three floating markets located close to Bangkok. Khlong Lat Mayom is nothing like the huge touristy Damnoen Saduak or the crowded Amphawa but really has the charm and authenticity of a local market and you might be one of the only foreigners around. Everybody love floating markets - Thai and tourists alike - you just have to see how locals flock to the place on weekends! Local market culture has deep roots in Thai daily life and eating out is not a special event as it is in western culture: it’s fun, cheap and casual, and Thai food has so many variations it can be a travelling theme on its own. Just like the two other markets around Bangkok, the definition of ’floating market’ is a bit stretched, the place being in fact more of a riverside market. The canal here is very narrow and only few boats are parked all alongside the riverbank and below a low bridge, cooking for customers who sit at low tables all along the water. Eating is always the highlight of a floating market visit, sitting on a little wooden stool not higher than 10 cm and ordering a dish cooked on a tiny wooden boat anchored just next to your table is such a fun and exotic experience! Don’t be shy and try some of the dishes you are not familiar with... if you don’t know what it is, just point at your neighbour’s plate: noodle soups, Pad Thai, Kanom Jeen (cold rice vermicellis) or Hoi Tod (oyster omelet) for 20 to 30 baht per plate. The drinks are usually sold by another person walking around.
Located just outside of Bangkok on the access road to Khlong Bangkok Noi, Taling Chan looks like any other fresh food market busy with produce vendors from nearby farms. But the twist emerges at the canal where several floating docks serve as informal dining rooms and the kitchens are boats tethered to the docks.
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Pickup Locations & Times
Free of charge Door to Door Pick up for CITY CENTER BANGKOK DISTRICT AREA (3 KM radius area) with namely Sukhumvit Soi (Lane) -1 to 33, Sukhumvit area Soi 1 to 33 (odd) and Soi 2 to 24 (even), Pratunam, Silom, Langsuan, Wireless Road, Sathorn, Surawongse, Siam, MBK, Yawarat (China Town), Khao San Road (Excluded City Tour) can pick up only in our meeting Royal Rattanakosin Hotel You can also join our tours at BANGKOK MEETING POINTS - Our office, Sun Leisure World Corporation, Level 29 The Offices at Central World 999/9 Rama I Rd, Pathumwan Pathum Wan, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10330 Thailand An additional surcharge for hotel pickup outside 3 miles (5 km) radius from the city center is applicable and payable on the day of your activity.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- We are SHA Plus certified. A certificate awarded to an organisation proving that they have approved Covid-19 health and preventative protocols in place and that 70% or more of all employees have been fully vaccinated.
- 48 hours is needed to arrange for tour with special language other than English, we have the right to cancel with full refund if booking is made less than 48 hours
Reviews(14)
The first market you visit is about 45 mins from Bangkok. It is a very large market which is floating in that it is partly on a pontoon next to a canal, but it is not a floating market where you are on a boat and so are the sellers. It is very busy with local people but we saw very few foreigners. You walk through to get on a boat and take a ride around the canal which is very nice and interesting and the walk through the market again. We asked to stop for a bit and buy breakfast which was great to try different foods. The next market is very small and probably not worth the top - we only stayed for maybe 15 minutes. Our guide was very nice and pointed out some foods but didn’t explain about the history of the markets or Thai culture which would have been interesting. It was a nice way to spend the morning even if not quite what we expected.
What a great experience. This tour really allowed us to see how people from Thailand lived in their floating market world. It was spectacular. We loved all the hustle and bustle that was going on there. We took a canal boat ride first so we could see how the people brought their food to the market. Then we went to the beautiful smells of the food being sold and Cooked for us. The choices are limitless. Cindy,our guide helped us decide on some traditional items plus we sampled a few of our own. Come hungry because you will want to try everything! After our eating extravaganza we went to TalingChen market which was a much smaller street market but it gave you the neighborhood feel that you get from a hometown market. There were elder musicians playing lovely music. What a treat. We highly recommend you going on this tour ASAP because this style of living is fading with the younger generations. Don’t miss it!
It's an old-fashioned floating market. I miss the boat ride. The floating restaurants are reasonably priced and relatively compact in size, but as they are close to Bangkok city, we recommend going to the mall on weekdays with priority if you want to go shopping during the day on weekends.
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Picked up in air conditioned car out side hotel with cold water bottle awaiting me. English speaking guide was very informative and filled lots of holes in my limited knowledge of Bangkok and its history. Tour started with the canal boats and an exploration of the waterways surrounding Khlong Lat Mayom floating markets. Feilds of bananas, mangoes, apples were all shown and revered. Even saw several monitor lizards in the waterways. Returning to the market there were many choices for breakfast. And I mean many. Whatever you can think of it was there. An endless walk through the markets in pursuit of stomach filling goodness. Actually I gorged myself like a pig. Trying everything I could and then some. When I could hardly walk it was time to go to the second market Taling Chan. This market was a lot smaller but as my guide said it has different wares from the other. Similar to a region offering different delicacies this also didn’t disappoint. Live traditional music an added bonus. All in all a great tour that I would recommend to all. Thanks Bangkok!
It was a nice experience, because in those markets you really know how the local people live. I recommend visiting
Great tour that gets you out of the city a bit. Had a good time and would recommend. Large part of what made my tour good was “sunny” the guide who spoke great English and was funny, smart, knowledgeable and personable. I saw monitor lizards too!
This is a very good tour if you have already toured Bangkok and know the local foods. if this is your first tour in bangkok, you will be a bit disappointed as it will feel just as you are only going through the market... with no tastings and you will have to pay for every thing that you want to purchase and consistently ask "what is this"... I wished the tourguide had some elements to "discover" and pre-defined vendors to stop. but its really just walking around the 2 markets... the tourguide does not know anyone in the markets so it seems very non-personable (versus other tours we've taken where the guides know all the vendors). Tourguide is very positive and drives safely and is very knowledgeable only if you know which questions to ask because you need to extract the information from them. Boat ride was fun. overall a bit expensive for what this tour provided for.
Kelly the guide made it an awesome experience. The higlight of my Bangkok visit so far. Great sightseeing and great shopping and tasting
Positive: We had a very knowledgeable and friendly tour guide who was able to answer all our questions which helped us learn more about Thai food and culture. Negative: The tour was promoted as a half-day activity from 8 am to 1 pm, but ended after 3 hours already. We were brought to a market a 40 mins drive outside of Bangkok. The market itself is not a floating market apart from maybe 3 boats with a few items to sell on them. There we hopped on a boat that drove us through some canals where there was basically nothing to see. We were wondering the whole time when we would arrive at the floating market, but when we returned to the static market after 40 mins we realized that this was it. After exiting the boat we wandered across the market which was basically no different from what we had seen in Bangkok already. No tasting/food was included in the 75 USDollars per person so we had to buy the things we wanted to eat. We then drove to another market that was tiny and had nothing to do with a floating market at all. We walked across and because we were not hungry anymore we were done after 30 mins and jumped back into the car that drove us back to the city. All in all, very disappointing taking into account the price which this is offered for! The 2 stars are just for the guide who was excellent and probably does not see much of the excess fees.
Dear Sir/Madam We are sorry that you did not like the experience, but this is really food and life experience so we have clearly mentioned in the program and this is Thai Side of life, A perfect culture not busy place, Usually our all tourist appreciate culture and thai lifestyle and we offer this only. however we are sorry to know that you did not like it regards
This is a must do! Our guide was amazing. She answered our million questions about the Thai people, lifestyle and culture. We spent time boating through villages along the canals and then walked through multiple floating markets sampling countless foods. Some we knew. Most we had never seen! It was a perfect morning!
