Thailand's largest flea market, known as the Bangkok version of Yiwu, is now a popular tourist destination

Thailand's capital, Bangkok, is not the most advanced city in the world, but it is definitely the most accessible and exciting tourist destination in the world. Bangkok not only has many modern shopping malls, but also a lot of large and small civilian market, come here, no one cannot help but buy, eat, forget to return, happy.
Thailand is arguably the world's least expensive tourist city, and Bangkok is a "people's shopping paradise,"so it is worth visiting most of flights to zhangjiajie the traditional Thai market, the most prestigious of which is undoubtedly the Chauchak Weekend Market.
Chadu weekend market, north of central bangkok, is the world's largest flea market and the most popular in thailand. Closed on saturdays and sundays, it's an ideal place for thai residents to shop, and for foreign tourists, it's a great place to experience the lifestyle of thai people.
The whole market is huge, covering an area of 14 hectares, the equivalent of more than 300 basketball courts, just to hear this size is enough to make people feel that the legs will be soft, the ladies listen to some inexplicable excitement? The chadu weekend market is divided into 27 functional areas with more than 15000 stalls.
As a shopping destination for locals and foreign tourists over the weekend, the goods in the market are plentiful and endless, ranging from popular costumes, accessories, fine gifts, antiques, books, to plants, gardening tools, home decor, ceramics and so on, with a dazzling array of items, some even joked: there are too many things here, people with difficulty in choosing.
Indeed, there are a wide variety of items here, whether it is a savings-based Taobao experts, or rich antique collectors, can find their beloved here. The key is that the prices of goods here are more pro-people, but also can be bargained with the store, look at the same thing can be three goods, from which to feel the most original shopping fun.
And there are a lot of Chinese tourists here, will happen to say, this is like our domestic Yiwu small commodity wholesale market. The only difference is that in the weekend market, there are a lot of goods even a single purchase, but also enjoy flight to fujian wholesale prices, see a lot of tourists are big bags to buy, not to buy are sorry for the business this sincerity.
Tired, thirsty and hungry, don't worry at all, you can enjoy Thailand's most attractive street food in the weekend market, with food shops, beverage stands and mobile salad stands all over the place, and a lot of local old brands or new Internet outlets that make you hate your stomach too small, too much good to eat.
Back in 1940, then thai prime minister luang pongi? At first he wanted to open a flea market in every district of bangkok. The flea market was the first to start, and then grew year after year. By 1982, to mark the 200th anniversary of bangkok's establishment, the local government had merged several flea markets in the city to form a permanent market.

Today's bangkok's thai-style weekend market, with more than 200,000 people on weekends and 40% of its visitors, is not only a variety of goods, good and cheap, but also a lot of special thai souvenirs. It's clear that the thai weekend market has become a popular shopping destination in bangkok.