C14- Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

Out from Bangkok, there is a floating market that becomes one of the Thailand’s most famous attractions, Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, 100 km west from Bangkok in Ratchaburi Province. In the past, daily commerce in Thailand was conducted mostly along rivers and canals. Every morning, boat venders will cramp in Damnoen Saduak Canal to sell product from their plantations that varies from fruits to vegetables. Now the product is more varieties as there are many visitors visit here every day.

Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is one of the oldest floating markets and has become a very popular tourist destination for both Thais and foreign tourists, travel here to shop, eat, and enjoy the atmosphere of Thailand’s water markets. It is unique and attractive.

Damnoen Saduak Canal was excavated and it took 2 years from the end of King Rama IV and completed the beginning of the reign of King Rama V with a length of about 32 kilometers to link the Mae Klong River with Tha Chin River to support transportation and trade. There is a small alley separated by about 200 canals. It was one of the most commercial and crowded canals in the past and remained active until 1967 when the development of roads replaced the need for water transportation. In 1971, Tourism Authority of Thailand has promoted to a tourist attraction. The market had boat vendors and shops on the canal banks when the river was full of farmers on their boats selling their wares that comes directly from farms and that is the way of trading in this area until today.

Discover Damnoen Saduak Floating Market offers a unique culinary experience. You will enjoy the scenery of rural life by the long tail speed boat to the center of floating market. We provide a private tour that you can experience the lifestyle of the people along the canal very closely.

At the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market can be divided into on land and in canals offers a unique culinary experience. Watching the wooden paddle boat vendors selling food, fruits, flowers and many kinds of local products in their boats you’ll also find traditional Thai food that you won’t find anywhere else. You can find both in the small stalls and

aboard the vendors floating crafts a tasty local product on offer includes mini coconut pancakes, boat noodles cooked in a rich, meaty broth and delicious coconut ice cream.

Inside the floating market, there are many foods, utensils and souvenirs. including handicrafts various handmade to choose to buy, choose to shop. You will be persuaded to buy things so let’s practicing your bargaining skill, feel fun on that, it’s definitely one of the atmospheres that you can’t find in your daily life.

The floating market is routinely crowded with hundreds of vendors and purchases floating in their small rowing boats, selling and buying agriculture products and local foods which are mostly bought from their own nearby orchards. Therefore, it is an attractive place for tourists to see the old style and traditional way of selling and buying goods.

Before the COVID- 19, Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is full with tourists. Nowadays even somethings have changed but it’s still the way of life of people in this area for those who want to get a canal atmosphere and rowboat trading and food from the local vendors the overall atmosphere of tourism at Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is still interesting and worth visiting.