Banpru Floating Market

Banpru Floating Market is a community floating market located in Ban Phru Subdistrict, Khlong Hoi Khong District, Songkhla Province in southern Thailand near Hat Yai. Set along Khlong Phru canal, it features vendors selling food, snacks and local products from boats and canal-side stalls. Developed as a local tourism and community livelihood initiative, it offers a small-scale, relaxed floating market experience reflecting southern Thai canal-side trading culture.

Visitors can expect a small canal-side floating market with wooden walkways, waterside stalls and vendors selling from boats. The setting is a narrow canal lined with food stalls offering southern Thai dishes, snacks, desserts and drinks, plus local handicrafts and produce. Visitors can walk along the canal, sit at waterside seating to eat, watch boat vendors, take photos and experience a local community market atmosphere that is less crowded than larger floating markets near Hat Yai.

The market reflects southern Thai canal-side trading culture and community-based tourism in Songkhla, providing a platform for local residents to sell traditional foods, produce and handicrafts and to preserve waterside market traditions for visitors.