Chatuchak Weekend Market, Bangkok

Driving along the countryside in the train the landscape was so simular to the Philippines with the beautiful green rice fields, forest covered hills and palm trees. One thing that was so amazing was the amount of storks that we saw flying and resting in the rice fields. We must have seen close to one hundred of these beautiful birds just on the one train ride. Once we arrived in Bangkok it seemed to be simular to most big cities except there was little english and it was quite difficult to find any simular names or restaurants like we are used to. We just didn't know what Subway or McDonalds looked like in the Thai symbols.
Our new friends reccommend we check out the Chatuchak Weekend Market. They claimed it was popular and it would be the place to go that had everything. Apparently it is the worlds largest weekend market and I read that there are over 15 000 booths set up selling whatever goods they have to offer. WELL, nothing could have prepared us for this jem!! It was is the bargain shoppers paradise! No joke, they had everything you could ever desire at this market. I have never seen such crazy things in my life! They were selling squirrels as pets, bunnies in dresses, puppies of every kind! We found these huge beetles that they will put on a stick in a cage with another and watch them fight!

There were endless clothing options, jewlerry, wood works, ceramics, luggage, house and kitchenwares! We would walk around a corner and think that we've maybe been down that aisle but then NO, still more. We spent a couple of hours both days we were in Bangkok at Chatuchak market and I could still be there now shopping if the weekend wasn't over... and I wasn't back home in Bacolod...
I think one of the most bizarre things I saw were some of the food selection. The most genious thing they had were these guys with fruit stands on wheels, you would simply pick your fruit and they would cut it up, put it in a bag and give you a stick to spear it with and you were on your way. The one thing I couldn't stomach to try were these delicious treats: Grasshoppers, frogs and fried chicks....