Sunday in Bangkok - Shopping

As many of you know, I think of Bangkok as if I was flying into the Bronx. I say that lovingly as Bangkok is a city of around 16 million people with many interesting things to do.

Shopping is one of the things that comes to the top of the list right along with visiting Buddhist Temples.

We got up today around 8:00 AM, had some breakfast at one of the eating stands on the street and got a taxi to the Ghatuchak Weekend Market. This market is HUGE! It is the largest market in Thailand. It is over 35 acres with more than 5000 stalls and as many as 300,000 people visit it each day on Saturday and Sunday

Although it was only about 10:00 AM the temperature was already up over ninety degrees and the humidity was extremely high. I was completely wet before we even got to the shop area that we wanted. The market is divided into different areas for flowers, china, incense, glass ware, jewelry, wood carvings, furniture and on and on.

We were shopping for two types of things. First, we wanted to buy incense and incense holders in little gift packs, Second, we wanted to buy small cloth bags to put jewelry in which we had bought at the Myanmar (Burma) border as gifts for folks in America.

We moved pretty fast and one shop lady actually took us to a shop that we could buy the small bags and the incense. We did have to find the rest room and we headed back out of the market.

It was about a half mile into the market were we bought the gifts and a half mile back out. At 11:00 AM you could hardly move down the isles of the market because so many people were there already. We were glad to get to the street and into an air conditioned taxi.

We got back to Soi 4 in the Sukhumvit area and were exhausted. We showered and took a nap in our nice air conditioned room with English Television including HBO.

Daeng was not feeling to well, from the beef entrails soup, I think. We stayed in and watched TV.