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Visit Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market, travel to Bangkok, shop and taste delicious food, cruise to see the way of life of the canal people in Bangkok, see a variety of beautiful orchids at Lung Niyom's Orchid Garden. Worth the time on the weekend Or you can skip work and go on a trip (consider it a personal day off).
Working too much will cause a fever. You have to find time to enjoy the greenery to refresh your brain to receive oxygen fully. Not far away, just in the Taling Chan district. Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market that we are familiar with Today it has become a large market along the canal with 6 zones. There is an ATM of the Government Savings Bank available in front of the market. When you arrive, you can press the money right away. As for the cashless society, you can scan the merchants. Sparkling, sparkling, lots of food. Come to one place and enjoy a complete formula, from Miang Kham, Khanom Krok, to hot scallops from the grill. You can also take a boat to pay respect to Luang Pho Dam at Wat Saphan and see the beautiful orchid garden. The boat trip is very cheap, only 70-100 baht. If you come in a group, charter a boat for 600 baht, which is a large long-tail boat that can take up to ten people.
Sookjai Holiday uses a taxi to get to Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market. But couldn't find the ATM until the beautiful merchant helped show the way. Finally found the ATM of the Government Savings Bank. No matter how cashless the society is, you have to have some in your bag to feel warm. The rest can be scanned in front. It was about to rain lightly (not heavily). Arrived at the floating market with a hungry stomach. Have to hurry and find something to eat first. Sitting in front of Pa Tik's a la carte restaurant. By the pond where boats are parked for taking pictures. Cool breeze, drizzling rain like this. Order stir-fried crispy pork with basil to eat. Heavy meals will wait until evening before returning. So I sat and ate rice, enjoying the cool breeze like this.
While waiting for Pa Tik's stir-fried crispy pork with basil, the merchant from "Mae Chor, Por Ruay" next door brought 1 Khanom Krok and a small curry puff in a small cup for us to try for free. "Please try it." This is what Sookjai Holiday will recommend because Khanom Krok from this shop is very delicious (delicious to the point of giving it twenty skulls). Khanom Krok is similar to Khanom Sai Sai in coconut milk. The filling is sweet and juicy but cool. The coconut milk is definitely mixed with fresh milk. After tasting the sample, I had to order one box of each (20 baht per box for both Khanom Krok and curry puffs). Sookjai Holiday can say that if you come to Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market and don't try Khanom Krok from this shop, you will definitely miss it one hundred percent.
After eating rice and desserts, it's time to walk around the market. Then I found another good thing in Khlong Lat Mayom. Food that has now become quite rare. Something that you want to eat any day, it's not easy to find, which is Miang Kham. It is always available at Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market. You can buy it. Sookjai Holiday, as soon as I found it, I rushed to take it home. They are sold in two sizes, priced at 40-50 baht each. There is also a wrapped and skewered version. Guaranteed taste. The deliciousness is in the Miang Kham sauce.
Thai food is the charm of Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market. There are also spicy grilled items, including squid, grilled fish, or if you like to eat snacks, there are peanut brittle, Vietnamese pancakes. You can find everything, including fruits that add to the atmosphere of the original floating market. Because in the era when it wasn't all tourism, every floating market used to be a trading market. The things that are sold are often vegetables and fruits that are grown and sold within that community.
Every time I come to visit, I guarantee that I will gain several kilograms when I get home. But another activity that I would like to invite visitors to Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market to do is don't forget to stop by and rummage for cute miniatures at the Miniature House. If you walk around, you will see the front of the shop by chance. The Miniature House has a variety of applied products for sale. And there are a lot of them too. Take the miniatures to make magnets to stick on the refrigerator, make them into chic hair clips, or there are keychains. The merchant said that nowadays it is very difficult to find craftsmen to make miniatures. The sculptors have changed their careers to become merchants because the miniature sculpting profession has low income and cannot support themselves.
After walking around the market, it's time to take a boat trip along Khlong Lat Mayom. The boat ticket prices are slightly different, ranging from 70-100 baht. Try asking around, each pier has a different price. Sookjai Holiday had travel companions who were two Japanese people and two Middle Eastern people. They are a group that likes to travel to floating markets. The boat route meanders from Khlong Lat Mayom into Khlong Bang Phrom, passing the Mae Phosop Shrine on the canal, which is a trace of rice culture. This is because in the past, the Khlong Bang Phrom area was a farming community. It only changed around 1957 when farmers turned to raising orchards and abandoned rice farming. This Mae Phosop Shrine may be more than 100 years old.
The boat arrived at Wat Saphan Floating Market. The boat driver stopped to let people go ashore to pay respect to Luang Pho Dam, the sacred Buddha of the canal community in this area. Sookjai Holiday has paid respect to Buddha and made wishes all over Thailand. I always ask for blessings from the Buddha that "May my business be prosperous, may I have beautiful and lovely girlfriends." I have been praying like this all along. But I haven't gotten any yet. I came to Wat Saphan and asked again in the same style.
What you see in the picture is a long-tail boat storage that many houses with boats have to have. (The back of the boat has very teenage messages "Not handsome but exciting" "Even though uncle is old, he's still exciting.") It's the same as a car garage. Because some parts of the canal are only narrow enough for two boats to pass each other. If you park the boat along the canal, there is a high chance of being hit in the stern. Therefore, a boat garage must be built to avoid traffic first.
The picture shows Mongkol Kan Ka shop. It is a shop that faces the water like the canal community in the past. There are very few left. This riverside shop helps to show that the people of Khlong Bang Phrom still have a way of life that is related to the water. They still use boats as part of their way of life. And the rivers and canals are still routes of transportation in daily life.
Along the Khlong Lat Mayom and Khlong Bang Phrom routes, I don't know which canals we will meander into because there are no signs on the boat route like on the road. Sookjai Holiday saw some Thai houses, gable houses, and Manila houses in small numbers. Some houses are obscured by waterfront pavilions or orchards so you can't see the house. Most of the houses along the canal today are wooden houses built in later times. Some are built as contemporary brick houses but face the water. Some families sit in front of the house and drink beer by the canal from four o'clock in the evening. Seeing this, I believe that life by the canal is really fun. Ha.
Arrived at Lung Niyom's orchid garden, or called the Orchid Production Learning Center, an agricultural tourism attraction, Department of Agricultural Extension, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. Uncle said that he has been growing orchids for 45 years. He took the water tour group to see the planting plots with many colorful orchids of many varieties. I'm starting to forget what I heard. Seeing such beautiful orchids, don't think they are expensive. The price to buy from the front of the plot is only 150 baht. If you are interested, come and support us. Take a boat from Khlong Lat Mayom and see the life along the canal in the middle of Bangkok that is unbelievable that it still exists.
As for Uncle Niyom, he is an exemplary farmer who turned from growing tom yum ingredients for sale (galangal, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, chili, lemon, shallots, I don't know if he grows everything) to making orchid farms since 1977. Farmers in the canal area around here used to grow tom yum ingredients for sale. Which occurred after rice farming had declined in popularity.
The boat trip from Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market takes only a little over 1 hour. The boat returns to drop tourists off at the floating market again. It is a fun and informative tourist activity at an affordable price.
As for Sookjai Holiday, when I returned to the floating market again, around four o'clock in the evening, I concluded that my dream was shattered. I thought I would sit and enjoy the cool breeze and have dinner by the canal before returning home, but it was too late. The merchants packed up their things because during the COVID-19 epidemic like this, it's quiet after five o'clock in the evening. When it rains and the sky is gloomy, tourists will definitely go home.
On the way back, Sookjai Holiday took a songthaew out of Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market. This songthaew runs far to the middle of Siriraj Hospital. The price is only 8 baht. Anyone interested in traveling and taking a boat trip at the floating market can catch the songthaew at the mouth of Soi Chimphli near Ratchaphruek Road that comes straight from Pinklao.
