Market
The Wharf Walking Street
Timber-framed Sino-Portuguese shophouses with covered walkways, once a Hainanese trading post, now a lively beachfront night market street.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Wharf Walking Street in Bophut, on Koh Samui, follows the Hainanese Chinese merchant families who framed the street's teak shophouses in the early nineteen hundreds to trade coconut, rubber and seafood with the mainland. It traces how those buildings stayed standing through generations of ordinary repair, while wooden architecture elsewhere on the island gave way to concrete resorts. Stand under the street's covered walkway at dusk, when the market stalls open, to see the old design still at work.
This audio guide was created using AI.