Last updated Sunday October 21, 2007
To get to the Weekend Market, which was all the way on the other end of the city, I took the Sky Train. Good move. It works much better than taking a taxi and getting stuck in downtown traffic for an hour. They have attendants to give change, but you have to buy the tickets from a machine. Fortunately there are instructions in English, and the machine has such a good user interface I probably could have done it without the instructions. The Sky Train was fast and made the stops very quickly. Kind of like a horizontal elevator. You have to be ready to hop on when it comes.
The weekend market was no disappointment. They had lots and lots of clothes, but I wasn't interested in them. You could outfit a whole house from this place. I bought a bunch of really nice chopsticks from this store for about two bucks.
I found some bronze statues for less than a tenth of what they would cost in the States. Many of the really interesting artwork shops had a "No Photographs" sign up so I didn't take as many pictures as I would have.
These fruits caught my eye. I did nothing to the photograph except reduce the size. The colors were even brighter to the eye than the camera could capture.
Of course you can't have a marketplace without pots for sale.
These women were discussing something very loudly, which is not usual in Thailand. Prices for the veggies must have been too high.