Muara Kuin Floating Market - Shopping Fun On The Water

Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan is the city known as the city of a thousand rivers. This city has a uniqueness that is very interesting. Here, there is a traditional market that is better known as Muara Kuin Floating Market, this market is located in the Barito river waters at the mouth of the river Muara Kuin. If you want to visit this place and go from Syamsudin Noor Airport, Banjarbaru or from the Banjarmasin City, your journey is approximately 1 hour to rent a car. Arriving at the dock of Muara Kuin, you can rent a boat for +/- 1 hour. Muara Kuin Floating Market activity has been going on since early morning, around 04.00 a.m until 08.00 a.m or more. So, to enjoy the uniqueness of the Muara Kuin Floating Market, you should leave in the early morning and arrived there about 05.30 a.m or 06.00 a.m to get a better look at the market activity of the Muara Kuin.

The traders bring a variety of materials by using "jukung" (small boats used by the public). Visitors who come and want to shop in the market of Muara Kuin should also use the jukung. The traders in this Muara Kuin Floating Market sell their products themselves or neighbors (usually called "dukuh"), while the agent or dealer who buys from the dukuh for resale called “panyambangan”. The unique of the market is still common barter transactions (commodity exchange in lieu of money) between the traders. This transaction in a Banjarmasin language known by the name “Bapanduk”.

Muara Kuin Floating Market is also have a special locations where the selling of each goods, or materials given food. There are specific locations where the traders selling coconuts, especially for fruits and vegetables, specifically to sell cassava, there is also a special location to sell fish, shrimp and other seafoods. There is also a special location for the traders selling food in the morning for breakfast. Thus, the buyer was not difficult to buy goods needs, just come to the location where the goods or food ingredients are sold.

Navigating in the Muara Kuin Floating Market is really interesting and unique, we can see the fighting spirit merchants of mothers, fathers, even grandmothers. They kept the spirit of rowing jukung while offer goods, vying to sell his wares, and even have to collide to pursue a buyer. Buyers no less swift vote and take things they need, because if not sooner, the things which they want to buy first can be taken by someone else. Because only a few hours, all the things needed can sold out.

After exploring the Muara Kuin Floating Market, you can relax, enjoy a cup of tea or coffee, plus food and cake typical of Banjarmasin, while enjoying the ripple of water that hit your boat. You also can see the floating houses (House Lanting) which lie along the riverside.

Navigating the Muara Kuin Floating Market can be an unforgettable memory about how people who live on the water ends meet. In addition, you also will find the pattern transactions that have aged more than 400 years. As said by many people, that did not complete it if you are into Banjarmasin but not yet visited The Muara Kuin Floating Market.

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