The 24-hour Pak Khlong Talat flower market now a ghost town

[webfact]

 

Pak Khlong Talat market is well known as Thailand’s biggest market for fresh-cut flowers from across the country and from other parts of the world, such as the Netherlands. Any kind of flower you can imagine, from colourful orchids, lilies and jasmine, to Dutch roses and tulips and grandiose floral arrangements are available at wholesale and retail prices.

 

Since its closure on May 22nd, at the order of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the market has, however, become a ghost town, especially at night, when it used to be energetic and bustling with vendors, workers pushing push carts loaded with fresh-cut flowers being unloaded from trucks and customers looking for the freshest blooms.

 

Chakrapetch Road, which used to be lined around the clock with flower stalls on both sides, is now deserted. All that are left are a few tents, manned by city police, erected to enforce the closure.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaipbsworld.com/the-24-hour-pak-khlong-talat-flower-market-now-a-ghost-town/

 

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[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Since its closure on May 22nd, at the order of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the market has, however, become a ghost town, especially at night, when it used to be energetic and bustling with vendors, workers pushing push carts loaded with fresh-cut flowers being unloaded from trucks and customers looking for the freshest blooms

Yet bars are closed... doesn't make any real sense any more.

[MasterBaker]

i passed a market at Samut Prakan last Sunday, around 100 motorbikes, more than 500 people there, no running water, forget social distancing, people touch all food, half with masks not covering nose. pathetic really. close all markets please