We took the commuter train from the Wongwianyai station in Bangkok to Mahaachai in Samutsakorn.
The destination is well known for the fish and seafood sources and markets.
Old style looking train time table to Mae klong.
Inside the commuter Thai train, non-airconditioned.
These are the villagers' houses built next to the rail track. You can see also the spirit house on the left side picture. Thai people believe that every house has spirits who protect and keep harms away.
The spirit house is built for the spirits to live and the people pray the spirits every morning next to it.
The spirit house is built for the spirits to live and the people pray the spirits every morning next to it.
We arrived to the Mahaachai station. Do you see the street vendors next to the rail track? Or should I say rail track vendors. Here the free space is scarce, so even the rail track itself has been utilized for small business. In fact, where there is a train, there is a village and the villagers make a community. Community brings traffic and trading, and at the end, when there are lots of people, the trading occurs everywhere where it is possible.
The train is leaving from the Mahaachai platform.
Once the train was gone, the vendors started to set up their tables and goods on the rail track again.
Why to have unused space when the train does not run?!
Chopping, cutting, fish intestines... everything were processed here right next to the rail track!
Rickshaw is still one of the common means of moving around the city.
Fully ecological way of transportation.
Don't worry if you don't own a car. You can load as many bags as you want on a rickshaw!
The only thing is that make sure you select a fit rickshaw driver!
Mahaachai market used to be one of the biggest seafood retailing market in Thailand. They are also famous for "kapi" (shrimp paste). Kapi is made of many types of shrimps and spices. Thai people use it to make shrimp paste sauces known as naam-prik-kapi, which is widely used in Thai cuisine. The most popular one is naam-prik-plaa-tuu (fish and vegetable with shrimp paste sauce).
Grading, sorting, cleansing and packing the fish. Next to the Mahaachai pier!
Salt is available to be bought next to the highway.
Call it Umbrella market, Train market or Death market... and the rail track here is not abandoned either, but has daily train traffic.
Phee-lok canal (in English: Ghost canal), the important canal waterway to the Amphawaa district.
The biggest Fish and Seafood trading market in Thailand (Thale Thai) at Samut songkhram. We were too late for the fish market. However, we could still see some activities of the fish traders. The fish trading takes place every morning from 2 am to 6 am and many exotic fish such as sharks are laid down in a big hall ready to be auctioned.
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