Samut Prakan Hotels

Samut Prakan city is the provincial capital of Samut Prakan Province. Samut Prakan, also known as Pak Nam, is located 29 kilometres south of Bangkok, around the area where the Chao Phraya River flows into the Gulf of Thailand. It is a town of the Ayutthaya period. Samut Prakan is home to countless historical and cultural sites. It occupies an area of 1,004 square kilometres and is administratively divided into 5 districts (Amphoes) and 1 sub-district (Ging Amphoe) . At the mouth of Mae Nam Chao Phraya, where it empties into the Gulf of Thailand, Samut Prakan (sometimes referred to as Meuang Pak Nam) smells fishier than the ocean. Most residents' lives revolve around fishing; motorcycle taxi drivers mend fishing nets while waiting for a fare or vendors shoo flies from crates of iced ocean dwellers. The city's name means Ocean Wall, a reference to Phra Chula Jawm Klao Fort, built around 1893, 7km south of the provincial hall.