Shopping into the night

Last night Pami and Neel arrived from Laos. They are in Bangkok for a couple days before they head to the beaches on the west coast of Thailand. We'll be meeting them next weekend in Koh Samui (east coast of Thailand) and can't wait!


We figured since they haven't been to Bangkok, we'd try to do something that is a must do in Bangkok, and head to a night market. There are 2 night markets that are popular in Bangkok. On is the Patpong Market, where you can get a knock off version of everything you could imagine. Its also in the red-light area of Bangkok, so there are Go-Go Bars and clubs along the market area. The other market is Suan Lum . This market has a cool open air food court and beer garden where live music is played. We decided to go to the Suan Lum since we wanted to be able to have dinner as well as shop. What a fun evening. The beer garden had 20+ food stalls around it where we all just were in awe with the number of options available for dinner. We ordered a bunch of dishes and grabbed two big bottles of beer and enjoyed the evening :) Aftewards we wandered through the shops picking up little knick knacks. Barginning here was crazy. For a purse I liked they started at 1200 bahts and ended up settling for 400 :) Definitely can't settle for less than half off here!

Today we fly out to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. More from there later!