If you ever find yourself in Chiang Mai, make sure there's a Sunday in there somewhere. Less than a 10 minute walk away from our hotel is the Tha Phae Gate, one of the original four gates into the old city. This gate is where the Sunday Night Market begins.
A market is a market, right? Normally I would agree with you, and in fact we avoided most of "those" types of places where you buy knock-off designer bags and crap souvenirs.
This one is different.
Crowded? Well, yes.
Arrive around 4pm to avoid heavy crowds, but be sure to stick around for the national anthem, where the crowd becomes eerily still and silent. And while there are great and tempting things to buy....
and ingest/consume/devour
A market is a market, right? Normally I would agree with you, and in fact we avoided most of "those" types of places where you buy knock-off designer bags and crap souvenirs.
This one is different.
Crowded? Well, yes.
Arrive around 4pm to avoid heavy crowds, but be sure to stick around for the national anthem, where the crowd becomes eerily still and silent. And while there are great and tempting things to buy....
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| Aluminum Tuk-tuks |
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| Clever t-shirts |
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| Nifty hats |
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| Buddha babies |
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| Paper umbrellas |
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| a whole lotta Art |
there's so much more to witness
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| Violin on moped |
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| Blind musicians |
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| Puppet show |
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| Puppet show |
and ingest/consume/devour
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| Food |
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| and more food! |
If there's only one thing you can do, make sure this is it.
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