Shopping in Bangkok

Well I'm pretty sure that Bangkok is by far the biggest city I have ever been through. It has about 12 million people and it sprawls as far as the eye can see in all directions. With that said, it is no wonder that they are the home of some very large markets and malls.

I joined the TREK team for a day of shopping in Bangkok. First stop was Jatujak market. It is HUGE, and impossible to see the whole thing in one day. It is home to thousands of little shops with thousands more of people, walking down aisles no wider than 6 feet (that's before they let their merchandise spill into the aisle. If you are claustrophobic, you might not want to dive in too deep, there are a lot of rows and some of them get pretty crowded.

Next stop was a congregation of malls (or flock of malls?) We think metrotown in Burnaby is a big mall. It is but that's just one mall. Imagine like 5 or more malls like that, all side by side or across the street from each other. And that's just one part of Bangkok. It just makes the malls in Canada seem puny (ok, except West Edmonton). The malls took the other half of our day and we only scratched the surface. Shopping in a city that size with that many people is definitely an amazing experience.