The length of Rachadamnoen Road becomes an expansive night market on Sunday evenings, Rachadamnoen and its many side streets. It is one of the better such markets we've seen: plenty of food and foodstuffs, but mostly touristy stuff, souvenirs and handcrafts and such, not crap, and carefully sorted to fit into visitors' suitcases. We stimulated the local economy a bit, but mostly strolled, impressed with the variety and quality. We walked for an hour or so, hardly the length of the thing, and then returned to our hostel.
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There are many shopping areas in greater Chiang Mai, not least this Bangkok-sized
giant out in the suburbs |
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But the real thing, for visitors, is Rachadamnoen Road, on Sunday nights |
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Huh? Well, any English will do |
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Looking onward from the start |
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Durian here too |
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Ken and Susan: something for your van to look forward to... |
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The market extends down side-streets, and even into this wat |
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Bullets for Buddha, a BB gun shooting gallery actually on the wat premises |
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Four directions at a major intersection |
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It's big and exciting, and popular |
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Facemasked hootenanny |
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OK, so we didn't want a big meal, just a little snack... |
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Yum! Crunch! Yum! |
1 comment:
Penelope wants to know if you ate any of the fried insects?!? :)
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