Tuesday, January 24, 2006

The Night Bizarre

I went to the "Night Bizarre". For those who have been to Bangkok, it's like Khao Saen Road except only at night. For those who haven't, it's about a kilometer of street vendors and tourists, lining both sides of a fairly busy street, from the afternoon onward. The vendors are selling all the usually tourist junk: cheap watches, t-shirts, trinkets, various types of clothing, purses, travel bags, jewelery, magic tricks, music CDs, VCDs and DVDs (not necessarily legit CDs/DVDs). The shops repeat every 30 feet or so, you don't have to walk the whole thing, but I did for the experience.

Overall, I didn't really like it. Too many pushy salesmen, not representative of Thai people, and to many ignorant tourists. I don't like to be associated with them.

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