We went to Chatuchak Market on our third day in Bangkok. We were lucky because it had only been re-opened less than a week after a few weeks of closure due to the floods in the area.Chatuchak Market had not really changed much from the last time I went there. OF course now that it is fully operational (again), people – both locals and tourists alike – come here in hordes to buy just about anything there is for grab.
Let’s put my posts on Bangkok on hold and return to New Delhi for a moment. It doesn’t feel good to leave it hanging just like that when there are still so many things to tell about this wonderful city. My last post on India had been about my trip to The Lotus Temple and it was good to finally see something of highly modern and futuristic architecture in New Delhi.It was just our first destination of the day and…
Our full-day tour of the city began on our second day in Bangkok. I’ve come to realize how shops open quite late there and it’s a no surprise that you’d see how vehicles are still scarce on the streets even when it’s already 8 am. The booming tourism industry in Bangkok doesn’t seem to have changed the city and its people at least linguistically. As the only nation in South East Asia that has never been colonized by any Western…