Bangkok's 24-hour flower market with orchids, roses, garlands
สน พระราชวัง ปาก คลองตลาด - วัดกัลยาณมิตร, Khwaeng Wang Burapha Phirom, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok 10200, Thailand Get directions
"A 24-hour flower market known for abundant Thai orchids and roses at very affordable prices (locals often pay about $3 for a dozen); shoppers can also pause for coffee and cake at an upstairs floral-themed café with highly photogenic decor. The market is both a practical place to pick up blooms and a sensory highlight of the city's markets." - Katie Jackson Katie Jackson Katie Jackson is a New York City-based writer who covers travel, food, and more. Her work has appeared in USA Today, The Sunday Times, Esquire, Outside, New York Post, and Travel + Leisure, among others. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines
"Bangkok’s bustling 24-hour flower market is a feast for the eyes and the nostrils—and one of the best places for jet-lagged travelers awake at odd hours to do some sightseeing. The highlight of the market is visiting the vendors along Chakkaraphet Road and watching locals prepare sacred temple offerings at lightning speed. They’re folding back the delicate petals of lotus blossoms, stringing fragrant jasmine into garlands known as malais, sorting through bags teeming with marigolds, and creating elaborate arrangements for funerals and weddings. Under the market’s tin roof, merchants sell bundles of orchids, button carnations, roses, green bananas still on the stem, towering stacks of prickly pineapples, and pre-made temple offerings. Across Chakkaraphet Road, don’t miss the elaborate ready-made bouquets and stacks of colorful orchids for 20 baht (60 cents) each." - Diana Hubbell, Katie Lockhart
"Imagine a city of 10 million people that’s twice the size of New York with no decent subway and traffic that feels like all 10 million hit the road at once. Maddening, right? Not when it comes to Bangkok, whose unconventional charms make the far larger impression. Instead of little shops or galleries down the alleyways of its old districts, you’ll find neighbors drinking tea and laughing in small plazas where their homes meet."
"I wandered through Pak Klong Talad and loved the flower market’s lilies, birds of paradise, and orchids — it’s a vibrant, fragrant corner of Chinatown." - Matthew Kepnes
"Located at the north end of Chinatown, I find Pak Klong Talad to be the biggest flower market in the city, with flowers arriving by boat every morning from across the country—an intense, fragrant slice of local life." - Matthew Kepnes
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