Chiang Mai Tour Day 3 fell on Sunday. After worship service at Dream Church and a quick lunch, we headed out to the Chiang Mai Old Town to visit the first and largest market, called Warorot Market.
Warorot Market
The oldest market in Chiang Mai is the most established and thus more famous. It is attracting both the locals and the tourists. Local Thais buy goods in this market to sell them in their own local markets. Tourist wander around to find bargain products and to experience exquisite cuisines of Northern Thailand.
We bought dried mangoes and several other products, including clothes. The prices are really affordable unless you are unlucky and get ripped off, which is really rate anyway. We did not have enough time to explore the upstairs and another market across the street from Warorot.
After shopping at Warorot Market, we walked by the Ping River (originally called Mae Ping River), that flows north to south right by the City of Chiang Mai. Unfortunately, the place where my mom and my sister stood to pose for the photo was stinky smelly due to urination probably by people as well as animals.
Cafe Woo
Chiang Mai Old Town, surrounded by moats, and its surrounding areas offer many boutique cafes and restaurants. One of such boutique cafes is Cafe Woo. Probably established by a Chinese, Cafe Woo provides not only cozy space and excellent foods and drinks, but also interesting artistic products available for sale as well as window shopping. The owner must be very artistic. Even the rest room was well decorated.
Definitely we bought the Cafe Woo's experiences for the price we paid for the desserts and drinks.
Sunday Night Market
Chiang Mai's Sunday Night Market is surely on the top of the places to visit. For the past one year, I have not had a chance to explore this market and we were so glad to visit this place. At several places, street musicians were playing their instruments, supposedly hoping to collect some donation from people.
At 6:00pm, everyone in the market stopped their movement and listened to the national anthem played through the speakers in the market. In fact, the entire nation of Thailand comes to a stop at this hour to pay tribute to the national anthem. I recalled the old memory of standing still when Korean national anthem was played and the national flag was taken down to be kept inside the buildings.
It opens at 4:00pm until midnight. Approximately one kilometer distance of the city streets are blocked and only pedestrians are allowed to enter. All kinds of merchants put out their booths and solicit clients. The merchandises are tremendously diverse in options. My ladies made contribution to the city merchants with their purchases. I am sure they all enjoyed the products as well as their prices, on top of the joy of shopping.
A small park transformed into a food court and the selection was amazing. We were not hungry and ended up eating only small meals. But our satisfaction was great. I will certainly come back to explore more.
By the time we left, around 6:20pm, te entire street was packed with people and I was not sure if they will be able to even walk around freely. We were glad that we came a bit early to beat the crowd. It became one of the most memorable experience for my mom. - Jeffrey
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