The Tha Prachan amulet market in a 2009 photo. Photo: Vasenka Photography / Flickr
BANGKOK — A world famous amulet market featured in just about every Bangkok travel guide will cease to exist this weekend.
The amulet street market located between Tha Prachan and Tha Chang near the Grand Palace in one of the most heavily visited areas of the city is being cleared out, the district chief said, because city hall had received too many complaints about traffic.
All stalls located in the area were told to move out by Sunday.
“It also included those seven or eight street food restaurants,” Somchai Tripittayakul, Phra Nakhon district chief, said of the order.
In line with the junta policy to reclaim public space and “reorganize” the capital, calls to shutter the bustling Tha Prachan street market have come several times from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, or BMA, since July 2014.