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an older district in Bangkok, and home to Khao San Road, which is where
all the backpackers show up. There are certainly loads of international
travellers around here. This is where they all converge.
September 23 -- Carol and I went off to the weekend market at Chatuchak on Sunday, took the river ferry down to the Skytrain station. It’s nice to get off the streets, which are slower and way more polluted. The river ferries are a trip, but you have to be quick jumping on and off. The market was just massive, and I’m sure we saw less than a quarter of what was there. It would take more than a weekend just to get through it all. There’s an extensive pet section, including cute little puppies and other critters that we could not even begin to recognize. We did find a good selection of fighting roosters, in case any of you are looking to build up the team. They were just down the way from the exotic fishes (including Siamese fighting fish, very colourful in the sunlight, I understand) and birds. There also were some stalls selling little live frogs and worms, well
more like grubs, I guess than worms, all crawling around in their big bowls.
It was hard to say what use they were intended for. We didn’t think,
however, that we should rule anything out, after visiting a restaurant
last week that had dried snakes on the menu.
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