Chatuchak Weekend Market
Weekend market of over fifteen thousand stalls spanning antiques, fashion, plants, art, and street food.
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This guide to Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok traces the ground beneath the stalls back to 1975, when a garbage crisis in Bangkok's Din Daeng district led General Kriangsak Chamanan to turn railway land into a landfill for military engineers to level. You'll hear about the vendors who had been pushed from one square to another across the city since 1942, and about the clock tower merchants built decades later as a gift for the king's sixtieth birthday. Twenty-seven sections and no map that fully works.
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