With August ending and September beginning it was time for my birthday celebrations to end… Ok-ok, one last fun weekend in Bangkok! I hadn’t been to Chatuchak Weekend Market, the worlds largest outdoor market for a long time. The 35-acre (68-rai) area of Chatuchak is home to more than 8,000 market stalls. On a typical weekend, more than 200,000 visitors come here to sift through the goods on offer. Its sheer size and diverse collections of merchandise will bring any seasoned shoppers to their knees – this is where you can literally shop ‘till you drop’. However, I enjoyed “just looking?” which almost every Thai shop keeper can say in English!
There is a newly developed area called the “Art of Bangkok” near the heart! We went to visit a teacher from Wisconsin and stayed at a new funky hotel called “The Beat”.
Inside the hotel the shower had multi coloured lights and the themed rooms featured various musicians, my guy in the room...
The whole area is still a work in progress, but the outside art work and sculptures are great.
The next day we found bargains galore at a little recycle shop called “Tokyo Joe’s” and had lunch at a traditional Dum-Sum restaurant. Then off to visit a couple of newer malls as I tried on a past love…happily gliding on the ice... at age 74! However, constantly watching to avoid being knocked down by the younger inexperienced skaters was a challenge... not quite the same as in my pre-teen days!
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