8 Markets in Bangkok as a Guide to Buy Souvenirs For a Cheaper Price
Buy souvenirs is not a hard thing when you buy it in a traditional market. We have summarized it as 7 markets in Bangkok as a guide to buy souvenirs for a cheaper price.
1. Sampeng Market
Sampeng Market - @tootleguide
Looking for one of markets in Bangkok that is a little quiet but offers super cheap items? Sampeng Market Bangkok is the answer. Sampeng Market is located in Chinatown or familiar with Yaowarat. This market provides a variety of accessories, jewelry, fabrics and handicrafts that are very suitable to be used as souvenirs when returning home. The souvenir center that is close to the Chinatown area also offers a wholesale package to make it easier for you to buy a lot. A traveler can find a variety of special souvenirs at cheap prices. Not only that, in Sampeng Market you will find the famous Bangkok street food paradise.
2. Pratunam Market
Pratunam Market - @nurulteesha
Pratunam Market Bangkok is one of the all-round markets in Bangkok. This market is located at the intersection between Ratchaprop and Petchburi roads. In this market you will find various accessories, bags, clothes, pants, bikinis, and shoes that are sold with various motifs and colors. If you are looking for unusual items to add to your collection, there are also people who sell clothes or costumes with strange models in Pratunam Market.
Small kiosks lined up there are always crowded with tourists who want to hunt valuables on a slant. Usually, in each type of goods are divided into separate areas. For example, casual clothes and pants are in one area alone, while party clothes are in a separate area. When shopping here, you don't need to be afraid of heat. Because, the building is equipped with air conditioning, so it's convenient to shop even though it is always crowded with locals and tourists.
3. Victory Momument (Anusawari Chai Samoraphum)
Victory Momument - @germainef
Victory Moment is one of the biggest places for street food in Bangkok, because all public transportation in Bangkok will cross this place. Bangkok is famous for small alleys or they call it soi. The location is quite hidden near the modern Siam shopping area and Victory Monument, precisely in the Phaya Tai area. Despite its hidden location, Petchaburi Soi 5 is always hunted by foreign tourists and become best food markets in Bangkok.
This market is very crowded with visitors because it has many food stalls with various kinds of menus. Wherever you see, there will always be food vendors and street food restaurants with a variety of food choices that are very varied and tempting to faith. One of the most hunted is the noodle boat restaurant with a variety of noodle choices.
4. Chatuchak Weekend Market
Chatuchak Weekend Market - @sunny_w8
Thailand is known as a bargain shopping paradise. One of them is the Chatuchak weekend market Bangkok. As the name implies, the location of this weekend market is in Kamphaeng Phet, Chatuchak, Bangkok. This is an all-round open market with a variety of low prices that can be found in the White Elephant Country. The Chatuchak concept is indeed held on weekends which are every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The type is divided into 11 regions, clothing and accessories, handicrafts, ceramics, furniture, food and beverages, gardening equipment, artwork, pet supplies, books, antiques and used goods. So there are many choices of items that you can buy as souvenirs.
It's best to come in the afternoon. Not too hot, and not too crowded. It's better to bring extra bags if you want to shop a lot of things.
5. Maeklong Railway Market
Maeklong Railway Market - @rolfmatthies
Overview of Maeklong Market in Bangkok looks the same as the others. However, this market is passed directly by the train. So this market is called the train market Bangkok. The train passed eight times a day at Maeklong Market. The siren sound is a warning sign before the train passes. Like being commanded, the merchants immediately rolled up tents that closed the railroad tracks and moved their merchant stalls. Not infrequently tourists take photos when the train passes.
Lots of traders here are selling food ranging from fruits to vegetables to seafood. This market is very crowded with tourists to see trains crossing. The merchants here also seemed to be accustomed when the train passed.
6. Klongsan Market
Klongsan Market - @mohamedparham
You might rarely find tourists in the Klongsan Market because generally this market is used as a place for locals to get rid of tiredness after working all day.
The area in this market is actually used to become a train station. Here you will find everything from clothes, shoes, jewelry, jeans to accessories. So there are many choices of items that you can choose as souvenirs of course at a fairly cheap price. Few tourists know about this market, which is a good thing because it means they are likely to give Thai prices.
In addition you will also find many kiosks that sell food, drinks and snacks here. Specially, here they also sell amulets that will protect and give a long and happy life.
7. Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market - @meliherisgezileri
Today, the floating market Bangkok Damnoen Saduak is one of Thailand's tourist attractions as one of a very attractive place for tourists to see traditional ways of selling and buying items such as traditional markets in Bangkok on land generally.
In this place you can get many opportunities to take pictures, selfies and explore more about the floating market. Damnoen Saduak is usually very crowded because it is the best known floating market destination. To be more comfortable, come in the morning when not many have visited here.
In this market you can also find various kinds of souvenirs that you can buy and take home to relatives and friends.
8. Talad Rod Fai
Talad Rod Fai - @miosasaki
This night market is specialized in selling antiques from the 60s to the 90s which are still sought today and known as one of vintage market Bangkok. Let's say Vespa accessories, or other antique car or motorcycle accessories, can be easily found. The price is of course bargaining, because the sellers who sell goods at this place are not traders carelessly. They know what prices and items are sought after by antique collectors.
Apart from automotive accessories, this place also sells antiques such as old toys, old telephones, antique displays, old posters such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi posters, old drink bottles, both opened, as well as the original containing drinks and unopened which of course has passed the expiration limit, old bicycles and various other antiques. Those are our recommendation for 8 markets in Bangkok as a guide to buy souvenirs for a cheaper price. So are you ready for adventure and shopping for souvenirs as much as you like?
