1. Chatuchak Market

2. Pak Klong Talat Flower Market

3. Klongsan Market

What to get there: Well, basically just about everything you can imagineHow To Get There: Sky train to Mo Chit station, or the underground to Chatuchak station, and follow the stream of people.Open: Saturdays and Sundays, 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.

What to get there: Mainly flowers, but also vegetables and fruits.How To Get There: Sky train to Siam stationOpen: 24 hours every day, but it is busiest in the evening.

What to get there: Everything from clothing, jewellery and shoes and cheap prices.How To Get There: Take a boat on Chao Phraya River and get off at Klong San Pier. And you’ll be in the market.Open: Every day from 7 am. to 10 pm.

Bangkok has some of the best and biggest markets in the world, and they are part of the reason why we love the “City of Angels” so much. Paying a visit to a Bangkok market should be an essential part of any trip here!

Please read our original and much more detailed guide to Bangkok’s many markets at http://nerdnomads.com/6-markets-in-bangkok-you-should-not-miss

Chatuchak Weekend Market is THE ultimate Bangkok market. It is the mother of all markets, and a real MUST when visiting Bangkok! It covers more than one km, consisting of a whopping 15 000 booths selling just about anything you can imaging from every corner of Thailand! And it has been in Bangkok for decades. The market is divided into 27 sections, and you can find things like wood carvings, clay hand-icrafts, local souvenirs from every part of Thailand, Buddhist amulets, wooden furniture, hand made decorated flowers, ceramic wares, Chinese wares, garden plants, stones, trendy fashions, silk, hill-tribe outfits, paintings of local painters, fluffy dogs, handbags, shoes, jewellery and fash-ionable Thai design of all sort – All at a cheap prize! It really is spectacular! Several of the big international shipping companies (like DHL) are present here and will ship your shopping stuff back home.

The vivid and colorful Flower Market (Pak Klong Talat) is a beautiful and lovely smelling market. Here you will find all kinds of flowers, vegetables and fruits. Though the market is open 24 hours, it is busiest before dawn, when boats and trucks arrive with flowers from all over Thailand.

The vibrant and busy Klongsan Plaza Market is where the local Thais go for shopping after they finish off at work, so don`t expect to meet that many other tourists or to find typical tourist souvenirs here. Here you will find everything from trendy clothes, shoes, jewelery, jeans, acces-sories…..Yep, basically everything you might need for a new look! Few tourists know about this market, which is a lucky thing because that means they are likely to be charging Thai prices.

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4. Klong Toey Fresh Market

5. Bangkok Farmers Market

6. Pratunam Market

What to get there: All fresh food, fruits, vegetables and herbs you can imagine, plus clothes, clocks, shoes….well, basically everything!How To Get There: MRT Subway to Klong Toei station, and walk out of Exit 1. When you come out, take right, and follow Rama 4 Road east about 10 minutes, and the Klong Toey Market will be on your right hand side. You can`t miss it, it is so huge!Open: Every day from 6 am. to 2 am.

What to get there: Food, snacks, drinks, jewellery, clothes, shoes…..all sorts of organic made things, everything locally made in Thai-land.How to get there: It is located different places around Bangkok (mostly inside shopping malls), but usually it is close to a Sky train station. The best place to find out when the next Farmers Market is going to be, and where is https://www.facebook.com/bkkfmOpen: Every 1st & 3rd Weekend of the Month, from 11 am. – 7 pm.

What to get there: Clothes, shoes, jewelery, sunglasses, and all thinkable knick-knacks, useful and not so useful!How To Get There: Take the Sky Train to Chit Lom station, and walk from there. Follow Chid Lom Rd., till you get to Petchburi Rd which you cross and take a left. Walk on Petchburi Rd till you reach Ratchaprarop Rd., and take a right on Ratchaprarop Rd and you will be right at the Pratunam Market.Open: Every day 7 am. to 7 pm. (although my impression is that they start to close they booths at around 5-6 pm.). But then the next door Baiyoke Night Market opens (from 5 pm. to Midnight), so just walk over to the next street and continue to shop. Shop til you drop!

The Klong Toey Market supplies Bangkok with half it’s fresh food. Here you will find all kinds of meat, fish, seafood, fruits, vegetables, herbs, but also clothes, shoes, clocks etc. The food they sell here is REALLY fresh! The fish and crabs are still alive when they are delivered to the market, so they kill the fish when you buy it, the same goes for the chickens. It is great fun to walk around at this market, even if you don`t plan to buy anything. The market is huge, and super busy with local Thais stocking up on fresh food. A fun fact about this market is that in 2010 CNN listed it as one of the most authentic markets in Bangkok, but apparently CNN also said that it is a place best avoided when hung over :)

The Bangkok Farmers Market is not only a market but a whole organisation working together with and for organic farmers all over Thailand. They focus on Healthy Living, and bringing peo-ple together. They also do Yoga, and give back to the communities through education, charity work and community programs in Thailand.Every first and third weekend each month they arrange Farmers Market at a particular place/ shopping mall in Bangkok, where farmers, food producers and artists come together to sell their organic products like fruits, vegetables, food, drinks, beauty products, clothes, jewellery and so much more!

This is a kind of indoor market, but there are also booths out in the alleys and streets around Pratunam. At this Market you will find clothes, shoes and accessorizes like jewellery, handbags and sunglasses, everything at wholesale prices. You can basically find all the knick-knacks you can ever imagine! It sure is a shopping bonanza! It is great fun to walk around at Pratunam Market, and you can do some real bargains at super low prices! It is located in a popular tourist area, so here you will see a mix of locals and foreign-ers. It’s a nice market to buy gifts, but also to shop clothes (if you can find your size) and shoes for yourself. It is also fun just to watch the Thai girls and boys go shopping-crazy!

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7. Dalat Rot Fai

What to get there: Hip and trendy clothes, both new and second-hand, handbags and all sorts of cool stuff. Also a nice place to hang around at cafes.How To Get There: Dalat Rot Fai is located southwest of the center of Bangkok, close to Seacon Square shopping center on Srina-karin Road (sometimes spelled Srinagarindra Road) in the Prawet District (NOT close to Chatuchak Market anymore!). If you’re facing the front of Seacon Square on Srinakarin Road, the entrance to Dalat Rot Fai is on the righthand side. Most taxi drivers know where it is. A taxi from the center of Bangkok to the market cost around 140 baht (5 us$) and takes about 30 minutes. If you want to take the Sky Train and then grab a taxi, get off at “On Nut” or “Udom” Station. A taxi from there to the market will cost about 60 baht (2 us$). If you’re by yourself you might save a few baht, but if you’re going with others it will probably be cheaper (and easier) to take a taxi all the way.Open: One area of Dalat Rot Fai has permanent shops, which are open Tuesday – Sunday (closed on Mondays). The rest of the market (with booths and stalls on the street) is open Wednesday and Friday – Saturday. Opening hours: 5 pm. till midnight.

Yes, we through in a seventh bonus market :) Our last market is The Dalat Rot Fai (meaning “Train Market”). It used to be located around some abandoned train tracks near Chatuchak Market and Mo Chit Bus Station. We have wanted to visit this market many times, but have never gotten around to it.

This is the second largest market in Bangkok, after Chatuchak Market, and sells all kinds of cool and trendy clothes and things. This is not a market that sells typical Thai souvenirs (wood elephants and Chang Beer tank tops), but more hip things that are trendy and popular in Thailand. This is apparently THE place to go for young hipster Thais. Here they also sell second hand clothes and handmade handbags, plus the market has many cool cafes.

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Please also read our original, and much more detailed post on Bangkok markets at http://nerdno-mads.com/6-markets-in-bangkok-you-should-not-miss.

We also have a guide to modern shopping in Bangkok at, http://nerdnomads.com/10-great-places-to-go-shopping-in-bangkok

Check out our many other articles about Bangkok at http://nerdnomads.com/tag/bangkok

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Maria & Espenhttp://nerdnomads.com

Bangkok has some great markets! Here you can “Shop till you drop”, but you can also just wander around and get a taste of some real Thai culture and day to day life !

Happy market shopping!