This was, hands down, the highlight
of the weekend. We took the Skytrain, and then the subway for two stops, but it
was totally worth the schlep. We saw a tiny fraction of one section of this behemoth.
I think you would have to visit this market every weekend for ten years to see
the whole thing once. This is where common Thai folk can cheaply buy their
stuff. All their stuff. We
came home with three large bags…
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| A tiny fragment - perhaps one billionth of the whole market |
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| She was a charming performer; note the car battery for her amp |
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| Ah, some of my all-time favorites, right in front of me! |
One area in our little section of Chatuchak was
for selling framed art/paintings, and some of the artists there moonlight,
quite literally, as amateur musicians, right there in the market.
Watching them play music together during down-time, it
didn't take long for me to get invited to hang out with these folks and join
them. We could barely talk with each other, but they kept giving us food and
drinks; we stayed until past 10pm.
They repeatedly invited us to another artist gathering
next weekend. We finally were able to convince them to stop feeding us and to
let us go home because the Skytrain stops at 11:45, and I don’t think they
wanted us to become their charges. We stumbled home in proper mass-transit
Bangkok fashion...
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| They're all gifted artists, mostly painters |
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Congas with sticks (?) Well, when in Thailand...
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| Plenty of eating/drinking next to the music-making |
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They were all so open and welcoming to us
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