Vendors sell flowers on Valentine's Day, Sunday, at Bangkok's Pak Khlong
It was a blue Valentine for Bangkok’s Pak
Khlong Talad yesterday, as the historic flower market sold its final
roses for the holiday.
Two
weeks remain before a City Hall deadline its many streetside vendors
clear out to improve the flow of traffic, which will spell the end of
the iconic market known for being an inexpensive place to buy flowers.
With
roots as a market stretching back to the late 1700s, the market has
operated 24 hours a day for six decades. It’s most packed during the
festive seasons flowers play a big part in celebrating such as
Valentine's, Loy Krathong and Wai Khru, when Thai students show their
gratitude to teachers with flowers.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has given them until Feb. 29 to clear out. Three
locations have been arranged for vendors to relocate: inside a private
building at Pak Khlong Talad, the nearby Yodpiman Flowers Market and the
Song Serm Kaset Thai Market a few minutes walk north.
The historic flower market sold its final roses
Source: Khaosod-English
Source: Khaosod-English
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