{"id":2027,"date":"2011-07-05T19:53:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2020-07-27T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T01:56:32","slug":"amphawa-floating-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/amphawa-floating-market","title":{"rendered":"Amphawa Floating Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few floating markets around Bangkok. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/damnoen-saduak-bangkok-floating-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Damnoen Saduak<\/a> is the most famous and the most photogenic, it is also the most expensive and touristy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Amphawa-Floating-Market.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6728 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Amphawa-Floating-Market.jpg\" alt=\"Amphawa Floating Market\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Amphawa-Floating-Market.jpg 5184w, https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Amphawa-Floating-Market-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Amphawa-Floating-Market-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5184px) 100vw, 5184px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But if you want a more authentic experience and a better atmosphere head down to Samut Songhkram to see the floating market at <strong>Amphawa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amphawa floating market<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t get started until the afternoon and although there are many people coming here it is still off the tourist trail so you won&#8217;t see many western faces.<\/p>\n<p>It is located about an hour&#8217;s drive outside the city and it is our favorite Bangkok floating market.<\/p>\n<p>We have made a slideshow video for you below so take a look:<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aH1lYyh3B3U<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have a look at our Facebook album Amphawa:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.204507856245486.56986.136880739674865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Floating Market in Samut Songkram<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few floating markets around Bangkok. Damnoen Saduak is the most famous and the most photogenic. But if you want a more authentic experience and a better atmosphere head down to Samut Songhkram to see the floating market at Amphawa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[607],"tags":[107,614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11483,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/11483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}