Pattaya Night Bazaar
Covered market of over two hundred fifty stalls selling Thai silk, handicrafts and souvenirs at fixed prices.
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This guide to Pattaya Night Bazaar reaches back to June 29, 1959, when trucks brought around five hundred American soldiers on rest leave to an almost empty fishing beach, where they rented houses from a local nobleman and had such a good time that word spread by mouth alone. You'll hear how that word of mouth, with no advertisement, drew off-duty troops from bases across the region and later from Vietnam, turning fishermen's huts into the city around you. It follows how that same instinct still runs the more than two hundred fifty stalls under this roof.
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