3-Hour Floating Market Tour in Banjarmasin at Dawn
About This Tour
Explore the vibrant floating market at dawn as sellers in colorful attire row traditional canoes, creating a bustling scene of trade on the river. Observe women...
Duration: 3 Hours · Tour type: Private · Activity level: Easy · Accommodation: Not included · Transport: Not included · Wheelchair access: Not applicable · City: Banjarmasin · Languages: English, Spanish
Know before you go: Please be ready to go by slow boat at 5 in the morning, and wake up earlier for the early start.
About Banjarmasin
Banjarmasin
Everest Global Hub’s local guides can help plan trips this onetime epicenter of Dutch colonialism in Borneo; now a town of timber houses, stilted villages, floating marketplaces and pretty mosques.
What's Included
- Bottle of water
- Guide
Not Included
- Safe
- Bribe
Itinerary
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1Day 01
Dawn Visit to the Floating Market
Leave at 5 in the morning and walk for five minutes from the hotel to the river. From there, travel by slow boat to the floating market, a journey that takes about an hour. The boat is small, without a roof, and open to the sky. As you approach the floating market, watch sellers and buyers rowing small traditional canoes from the villages along the river to the meeting place. The journey to the floating market takes place at dawn, when the market is active between four and ten in the morning. As the sun rises, the number of canoes increases, and around noon they slowly begin to disappear. When the weather is very hot, the vendors shelter behind their wide hats. Dressed in bright colors, the scene is wonderfully colorful, with women selling fruits, cakes, and more. The vendors have their faces painted white to look prettier, using face powder. You will see limes, bananas, a type of apple, soursop, pumpkins, vegetables, carrots, watermelon, cucumbers, eggplants, and more for sale. This is the most impressive spectacle. The end of the journey.
Meeting Point
Meeting point: Banjarmasin, Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan, Indonesia · Tour start: Banjarmasin, Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan, Indonesia — Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
