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Chatuchak Market & The Grand Palace
Consulting a map, our guidebook, and our desire to see each corner of Bangkok’s local and tourist scene we hopped on borrowed single speeds and left from the Shanti Lodge destine for Chatuchak Market. The ride was the usual wrestling with cars for space while ourselves and the motorcycles weave through traffic. Accidentally turning down closed roads […]
Market Hopping & The Reclining Buddha
Out the front door of our accommodations, Shanti Lodge, we wandered a few hundred meters to the neighborhood talad (or market). Unlike the famed night markets, the morning market features fresh (wet) goods for residents and merchants. Far from the forced “health measures” practiced under the USDA; this market featured on site butchering and still […]