More bang for your buck

Shopping in Bangkok!
This time we hit Bangkok at 7am after the 12 hour night bus and thought we'd stay in another part of town. We headed for Siam Square- bring on the mega malls!
But first we set straight out to Chatchuchak Market- a behemoth of markets. Huge is just the beginning. Wandering through the stalls we moved between Thai antiques, tacky tourist trash, second hand amercian clothes- levis, converse etc, and then we hit the livestock area.
Whoa- that was definitely our favourite- despite totally getting lost and entering some weird section where there was a dwarf watching some mad cock fighting. Buckets of mice, tanks of snakes and spiders, big cages of puppies and kittens (which looked like they were totally suffering in the heat), 100's of birds and lots of squirrels on red leashes.

After a break we hit HBK centre- a 7 storey mall. That was pretty crazy- mega bootleg everything- I saw some new 'iPods'- which were definitely a stretch of the imagination. The next day we roamed around Siam Square- and got hustled by some ladies who assured us that there wsa no accomodation in Northern Thailand at all and that we must come with them to their friend's place to sort us out. We assured them we were fine- eventually just realising that if we pretended we didn't speak English either it was easier! Von ja ist Deutschland, wo wir sind.

Bangkok this time around was a lot more fun and we were a lot more savvy about what was going on. I enjoyed it heaps and am already planning return shopping trips!