Muara Kuin Floating Market

Muara Kuin Floating Market is a traditional floating market is located on the river at the mouth of the Barito river Kuin, Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan.Para merchants and shoppers use the boats, boats in a language called Banjar. This market began after the dawn prayer until after seven o'clock. The sun rises reflect light between the transaction of vegetables and crops from the villages along the Barito river and its tributaries.

Boating women traders who sell their products themselves or their neighbors called the hamlet, while the second hand purchase from the hamlet for resale called panyambangan. Keistemewaan this market is still common among the traders barter transactions boating, which is in a language called Banjar bapanduk.

Kuin floating market is now likely extinct following a change to the land market. Many tourists who visit Kuin have to swallow disappointment because it did not find any exotic market stretching over the water.

Extinction of traditional markets in the region "a thousand rivers" was triggered by a ravenous culture of land and supported by regional development which is always oriented kedaratan. River channels and canals destroyed irreplaceable with ease road. Communities that have had many boats, is now proud to have a motorcycle or car.