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Pak Klong Talat

Flower and Vegetable Market

Pak Klong Talat is the biggest flower market in Bangkok. Every day as the bite of the hot sun dissipates, the roadside of Pak Klong transforms into a kaleidoscope of bright, blooming color as vendors, receiving floral goods from each flower growing area of the Kingdom, meet to trade.

This is a wholesale market for all kinds of cut flowers and vegetables. It is located on Maharat Road near the Memorial Bridge. The colorful flowers and the bustling atmosphere is the charm of this market, especially when the market is crowded in the early morning and in the evening.

The Pak Klong Talat (Talat means market) is essentially a wholesale market for fruits and vegetables, but also a consumers market. The wholesale area is concentrated near the river. The market is on Chak Phet Street and in side-streets on both sides of it. If you are at Wat Pho, follow Maharaj Road with the Chao Phraya River on your right hand side. Walk up and down the market a few times. Do not forget the small streets at both sides and enjoy the best-smelling market in Bangkok!

Allow yourself to take it in... sniff the air. In place of the sometimes acrid odors that rise from the Bangkok drains, are the delightful scents of jasmine, rose, lily and marigold. It is a fragrant oasis in Bangkok - a place where the gift of smell is a pleasure.

The floral feast is truly engaging for flower lovers. In addition to roses, daisies and chrysanthemums are other more fascinating blooms unique to tropical climates. Haleconias grow with copious numbers of different flowers and the orchids spill magenta, tangerine and canary tresses of bright color on to the street.

The plentiful water supply in the provinces of Nakon Prathom, Samut Sakon and Samut Songkram to the South-west of Bangkok, nourishes thousands of farms; hundreds of which produce millions of flowers every year.

The vegetable market too has a good smell. You can regard Pak Klong Talat as the Covent Garden or as Les Halles of Bangkok. This is indeed the main trading place for vegetables.