Talad Rong Kluea (ตลาดโรงเกลือ), also known as Ban Khlong Luek Border Market, is Thailand’s largest second-hand goods market. It borders Cambodia on the trade route gateway to Indochina and is widely known among Thais. This Market has both new and second-hand zones; wholesale and retail are available.
What is the charm of this place? Used brand name products with good condition and low price, attracting merchants and tourists from Bangkok and other provinces across Thailand to come and buy. The category that is popular and made famous here is second-hand clothes.
Ban Khlong Luek’s border trade is the most popular channel for exporting and importing Thai-Cambodian products. This vast Market of Rong Kluea is home to around 90% of Cambodian entrepreneurs of Chinese and Vietnamese descent.
Located in Tambon Pa Rai, just 6 kilometers south from Aranyaprathet District, near the Ban Khlong Luek permanent border crossing point (only 500 meters away), in Tha Kham Subdistrict, Aranyaprathet District in Sa Kaeo Province — Ban Khlong Luek, is a border area adjacent to the Casino City of Poipet, Ou Chrov District, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia,
The Thai largest border market is extensive, with at least 3,000 stores; each day is filled with many people traveling from all over the kingdom. It comprises 5 sub-markets, namely Rong Kluea Market, New Rong Kluea Market, Golden Gate Market, Det Thai Market and Benjawan Market.
Open daily from Monday to Sunday between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Inside the Market is there are various kinds of goods. Each day, there will be a turnover of tens of millions of baht per day. But if it is during high season tourism, there will be hundreds of millions of baht per day circulating per day.
The group of people who come here are a group of tourists and merchants who bring their products to sell upcountry across the country.
Most shoppers tend to walk in search of second-hand brand name items that are in good condition at low prices. Most of which are imported from many countries such as Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Pakistan, France, America, England, Germany, Russia, Cambodia, and Thai products.
Both are first-hand and second-hand, including clothes, t-shirts, sweaters, jeans, belts, bags, shoes, glasses, watches, silverware, diamonds, gems, electrical appliances, electronic equipment, auto accessories, bicycles, children’s toys, hiking equipment, fishing rods, ceramics, brassware, porcelain, kitchen utensils, crockery, carpets, curtains, wickerwork, carved wood, gift shop, vegetables, fruits, dried food, and insects
The word “Rong Kluea” is the original name, as it used to be a place used to store salt to sell to Cambodians; to make salted fish. Subsequently, the demand for salt decreased due to the war and later changed to today’s Market.
Because the area is large, Golf carts, bicycles, and bicycles are available for rent for convenient sightseeing and shopping in the Market.
From Ban Khlong Luek Market, you will find a chartered car service to Poipet town. And VIP transfer service to Siem Reap, where Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom were reserved.
Visiting or shopping at Rong Kluea Market should arrive early in the morning. Besides shopping a wide variety of products, there is also a chance to see the way of life of the Cambodian merchants and workers living on the Poipet side. They queued in line to cross the border into Thailand to open a shop selling goods, loading and unloading goods and doing contract work from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Traveling to the Market can be reached by private car, buses from Mo Chit, vans, trains arrive at Aranyaprathet. The Market has a lot of parking spaces.
Source: BusinessBangkok.com’s Staff Report
