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Your typical shopping looks like this: Take the bag. Get in the car. Eat in a supermarket. Put products into cart. Unload the truck. Check out of the store. Load bags products. Put the bags in the car. Eat home. Unload the bags from the car.Unload products from bags. Download products in the refrigerator. Exhale.

Elsewhere around the globe, sellers float on the market. Customers go to the harbor decking, choose and buy traded colorful ripe fruit, vegetables and ready meals brought to market in the boats. The concept of floating market originated in an era when water transport was still one of the major daily use mainly in Southeast Asia. Such well-known markets are still to be found in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Burma, and smaller, less well-known markets are also still exist in other regions of the globe.

Today many of the floating markets are tourist attractions – sellers often more concerned with selling to tourists and not locals. But still, these markets are interesting places. They are so well known for their visual appeal that even IKEA borrowed in 2012 to create the concept of the exhibition “floating night market” on the north London Regents Canal.

Look at these 15 pictures on water markets, located throughout the world, and compare, so if your regular shopping spectacular.

(15 photos)

1. Market on the water Damnoen Saduak, Ratchaburi, Thailand.
Damnoen Saduak is one of the most popular floating markets in the world. It is noisy and bright, which is typical for most markets.

2. Floating Market on Dal lake in Srinagar, India
Unlike the markets of Thailand, who sell fruit, floating market on Dal Lake Srinagar focused on trade vegetables.

3. Sellers market on water Solomon Islands.
The Solomon Islands are located northeast of Australia, east of Papua New Guinea. They are not so well known, as the markets of Southeast Asia, so familiarity with daily life here is quite curious.

4. Floating Market on Inle Lake, Myanmar.
Local market around Inle Lake for five days on the water moved to different places. But often held on the lake and to attract tourists.

5. Supplier buyers waiting patiently for one of the floating markets of Bangkok.
Raw fruits and vegetables are not the only thing that is sold at the floating market in Thailand – here you can also buy hot soups and ready meals.

6. Active movement in the market Damnoen Saduak.
Actually floating market Damnoen Saduak consists of three markets :: Ton Khem, Xia Kui and Hong Hitak. Ton Khem is the most popular market among tourists.

7. Daily business on Dal lake in Srinagar.
Sellers in the market of Dal Lake Srinagar, on their gorgeous (mostly wooden boats found in this and other small water bodies in Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar), converge in the middle of the lake, to talk business and secular events.

8. Small floating restaurant in Ratchaburi, Thailand.
Women skillfully directing their boats at the floating markets of Thailand. Few men can match them

9. Weighed fruit market Damnoen Saduak.
Klong Damnoen Saduak canal, which houses the floating markets, was built to link the Tha Chin River tie and Mae Klong.

10. The seller is willing to trade at the floating market in Taling Chan Bangkok.
Located 12 km from Bangkok, the floating market in Taling Chan is much smaller than Damnoen Saduak. There is less people, which often makes it more attractive for travelers.

11. Lunch at the floating market of Dal Lake.
Floating Market of Dal Lake is the only one of its kind in India, as most floating markets nowadays mostly located only in Southeast Asia. For this market vegetables are grown in small, dry areas around the lake. Then sell potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkin, radish.

12. Trader Cai Rang floating market in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Floating market at Cai Rang is one of the largest in the Mekong Delta. Fruits and vegetables are usually sold wholesale.

13. Travelers Group examines products and make purchases on the market Damnoen Saduak
Vegetables and fruits for trading on the floating market of Damnoen Saduak, typically grown in the vicinity of the canal banks. Fertile soil allows for grow large quantities of mangoes, bananas, coconuts, Malacca grape, Chinese grapefruit, and more.

14. Floating Market in the Solomon Islands.
As big markets of Southeast Asia, small boats floating in the clear waters of the Melanesian island also impressive sight.

15. Sold in Damnoen Saduak is preparing to trade and waiting for buyers.
Market, which is 100 years old is a very popular place, so it is clogged with tourists, both from Thailand and the West. Most of the goods sold to satisfy the tourists, but a genuine local products can still be found.