Taling Chan Floating Market

This guide to Taling Chan Floating Market in Bangkok traces Khlong Chak Phra, a canal old enough to have once formed Thonburi's western moat, back to a 1987 gift governor Chamlong Srimuang wanted to give King Bhumibol Adulyadej. It follows how he revived a neighborly, tour-bus-free floating market on the western bank rather than building a monument, and what still shows up on vendor boats today. Look across to the far bank for the orchards where the city still thins out.