5 Shawn McGuire - a year ago
USE TO BE A GREAT AREA TO SPEND TIME. Sadly, since covid the place has dried up quite a bit. I'll include lots of photos of the surrounding area and give you some tips. Okay, this is a tourist area, but it's highly visited by locals so it's a nice place to visit without all the hassles of hucksters. Easy to find and the bus lines (pictured) dead end right at the entrance to Yodpiman Riverwalk. If you read my reviews you'll notice that I prefer public transportation. If you like to stroll around, this might be the place for you. Early in the morning theres almost no one at the landing dock areas and Maha Rat Rd. is almost vacant. You can leisurely walk around the docks and spend all day on Maha Rat. Maha Rat is the main road on the East side of Chao Phraya. Infinite number of things to see and do there. Photos are included beyond Yodpiman and the surrounding area because it's truly a beautiful and interesting area, but go up past the Naval area and toward the Amulet market and you'll find any number of hawkers.This is a better breed of hawker that won't trouble you, but now you've been advised. Everything photographed here is within a thirty minute walk. I encourage you to study Google maps at a close up level.
YODPIMAN market itself is truly 99.9% Thai (photos included) Fruit, Vegetable and Flower street and covered markets. I don't get the flower fascination, but my wife buys them occasionally for religious purposes. Apparently they all do, it's a cultural thing.
SIDE NOTE -Unless your into some seriously kinky stuff I'd advise staying away from that Naval Club (pictured). Nice place, but deeply twisted.
