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Pattayenach Floating Market operate at the beginning of the dry season (November) 2008. Until now It is the largest trading platform on water in Thailand. Its area is 100 thousand square meters. meters, however, if you won’t stop at the shelves, you can go around from edge to edge for some half an hour. Trade pavilions stand on stilts, move around between them can be both on boats and on the footbridge. Administratively it is divided into four parts, each of which is representative of one of the regions of the country – Northern Thailand, Northeast, South and Central.

Note. Read the detailed article about The features of the floating markets of Thailand are generally.

Contents

1 What is interesting floating market in Pattaya?
2 How to get to the floating market in Pattaya?
3 Video review of the floating market
4 Floating market on the map of Pattaya

What is interesting floating market in Pattaya?

Pattaya Floating Market is the epitome of traditional the seaside culture of the country, where whole villages are built on stilts, whether then the shore of a lake, river or sea bay. Therefore the goods are there Most of them are made by local artisans and carry a bit of national color. Besides Moreover, right on the territory give presentations folklore dance groups, Thai boxing tournaments are held, The services offered are traditional massage parlors. The final there is a temple. Here he is dedicated to the Hindu deity Ganesh – the elephant-like son of Shiva, in charge of luck and well-being in business.

The total number of shops and shops on the market exceeds a hundred, them you can inexpensively purchase various colonial goods – natural silk, clothes, toys, handmade souvenirs. Here too sell fruit – papaya, durian, etc. (usually they are piled by the mountain right in the boats), as well as by means of oriental medicine, natural cosmetics.

On the market you can spend all day. To do this, work there several cafes – boats with a hearth where food is prepared right on your eyes. Traditionally served chicken rice and soup cost about thirty baht.

As already mentioned, the market is where to have fun. In the breaks between purchases you can look at the national dances, boxing, ropewalkers.

How to get to the floating market in Pattaya?

The question of how to get to the floating market in Pattaya is very popular among tourists. To find it is quite simple – you must follow from the intersection of the street Teprazit and Sukhumvit highway to the south, in the direction of the airport Utapao.

As soon as the highway begins to taper to two lanes, look at all eyes. From this place to the market no more than a hundred meters. A sign of that you are on the right track, is a large number of buses, parked on the left. Well, do not notice a large banner Floating Market can only be in a state of nirvana.

The municipal songteos run along the highway; exceeds 20 baht. You can go by taxi, just remember that the local bombilam the word Floating is unfamiliar, so the purpose of the trip call Water Market.