Sunday 5 December 2010

Saturday Market at Chiang Mai


This trip seems to be getting better by the day, but I think yesterday will be hard to beat after meeting those tigers. We had the bike until 15:30 so thought we would make the most of it and travel a bit further out of town to San Kampaeng. It's meant to be full of handicraft things that Isabella was pretty keen to have a look at but when we got there it was dead... must have been the wrong day. After the bike went back we chilled by the pool until early evening, when we got a Tuk Tuk over to the Saturday Market which is similar to the night bazaar. The night bazaar had so much crap for tourists like fake football shirts and fake watches, probably because it had become so famous but the saturday market was so much better! It was a lot more of what I expected from the night bazaar with more hand made bits and food stalls.

Tuk Tuk ride to Saturday Market, Chiang Mai
Saturday Market, Chiang Mai
Saturday Market, Chiang Mai
Saturday Market, Chiang Mai
Saturday Market, Chiang Mai
Saturday Market, Chiang Mai
Saturday Market, Chiang Mai
Saturday Market, Chiang Mai

Saturday Market, Chiang Mai
Saturday Market, Chiang Mai
Saturday Market, Chiang Mai

We initially only booked 3 nights at Riverside House, but we've extended it. Tonights our 4th night here, and I think we are going to stay even longer because Chiang Mai has so much going on and is a really chilled out city. We might head further north to Chiang Rai, or head south to Sukhothai in a few days when we've looked into whats around a bit more.

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