We depart from the overnight train and get taxis back to The Viengtai Hotel, Bangkok, leave our bags and head off after breakfast to the Weekend Market at Chatuchak. We get a taxi there for 150 baht, which we thought was good as it was quite a long way. The market is huge and sells lots of clothes, tee shirts, shoes, food, pets and anything you could possibly want. There are thousand of stalls, we walked around a small area for about 90 mins buying tee shirts and presents. It was very hot and sticky the only air was when you passed a fan on a stall. We then moved on to the pet area, seeing what looked like pedigree cats and puppies, rabbits as well as snakes and all manner of fish. After this we
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