Hotel Chiang Mai Night Bazaar

don't want to walk, since within the old Chiang Mai city limit all can be reached by a short walk. They also offer motorbikes, bicycle and cars for rent, a small motorbike -100 cc- is about Baht 150,- per day -negotiable-.

Tours are offered into the "hinterland" such as Doi Suthep and Doi Inthanon, Doi Inthanon is Thailand's highest peak and a very popular destination among Thai people. A very popular tour is to visit one of the elephant camps, beside the road to the north, and do a elephant and a bamboo raft ride, more on this see below. Other tourist attractions are a visit to a monkey and cobra show, do trekking, rafting, inclusive bamboo rafting. Beside of the usual flight connection to Bangkok, there is also a flight to Mae Hong Son. This is a quite interesting Thai tour destination. The city is the right place for shopping various handicrafts and other local goods sold quite low prices, means after tough bargaining. It's a top tourist destination in Thailand and for sure the premier travel destination in northern Thailand.

Typical Chiang Mai night bazaar shopping items are wood work including teal furniture and teak carving, silk cloth and decorative items, various silver art, jewelry, clothing, ceramics items such as celadon tableware and decorative items. There are typical Thai interior decoration works and antiques, Buddhist art and lacquer work, plus plus.

Chiang Mai Night Bazaar is one of the biggest and most popular night market in Thailand. From your Chiang Mai hotel just take a tuk tuk or motorbike taxi it only takes a couple of minutes to reach the night market. Since the night market has several restaurants, food stalls and food courts integrated including a large stage where Thai dancing and singing is performed its easy to spend the whole evening there and explore the street-side stalls and arcades. The Chiang Mai Night Bazaar is the right place to shop for exotic souvenirs and handcrafted goods created by skilled crafts-persons from northern Thailand. Beautiful Buddhist art is also available, mostly either Buddha images and Buddha Statues.

The so called “Walking Street Market” is open on Sundays, has a great atmosphere and the right place for bargain shopping. As usual plenty of Thai food stalls plus Thai massage and especially foot massage parlors are around you could also get some good looking Thai tattoos at one of the Tattoo parlors.

Chiang Mai Night Bazaar Shops.

Chiang Mai Night Bazaar

Buddha Images

Buddha Statues

Shopping at the source could be done at the factories at San Kamphaeng Borsang village, they have useful handicrafts and the unique Borsang umbrellas. Another handicraft production village just south of the city is Baan Tawai with a wide selection of wood carving, wood decor plus other handicrafts including attractive celadon ceramic creations such as table ware and other products.

Plenty of shops selling “hill tribe art” made in the northern Thailand tribal areas. One of the better shops is the Hill Tribe Products Promotion Center offering products made by Akha, Hmong,

There is no town on earth and between earth and the moon with this kind of shopping paradise, ..“the mother of all night market” told by Lonely Planet.

The Chiang Mai night bazaar is somehow in the middle of the city, just behind the tall hotels and easily reach by a tuk tuk for Baht 40,-.

- Chiang Mai shopping,

usually with the factory in the backyard are located at San Kampaeng Road, a virtual super monster shopping mall. Thai celadon ceramics is offered in many shops, the interesting thing is almost all the shops along San Kampaeng Road in Chiang Mai have the factory in the backyard.

When you want to buy some Chiang Mai celadon you also can watch how it's made, the same is with items  bronze sculptures, lacquer ware, silk, silver craft and other items. Beautiful silverworks, jade items, furniture -mostly of teak and wall decoration and the teak - rosewood movable bar, the useful party star and eye catcher in every house.  

Just fill it up with your preferred liquids and have a good time. Rosewood furniture, teak carving, marvelous Thai silk materials, fashion items etc. are available. Plus high value teak wood relief artwork for the ultimate wall decoration. Other items are celadon tableware made in Chiang Mai plus jade jewelry and other pretty things. Some places sell the same handicrafts which are available at Chiang Mai night bazaar

and local  made textiles from cotton with native patterns.

Celadon ceramics made in Thailand have a long tradition. The real thing for your house, exquisite celadon ceramic and tableware. The oldest were found in some shipwrecks off the Malaysian east coast from the 15 th. century. Its really interesting how those ceramic items found their way around Asia already in the 15.th. century and probably even more early. But only at that time the vessels became bigger to be suitable to carry more load for trading. At that time Thai celadon came from Singburi and the area around today Sukhothai.

 

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