Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Chiang Mai Night Bazaar is one of the city's main night-time attractions, especially for
families, and it is the modern legacy of the original Yunnanese trading caravans that
stopped here along the ancient trade route between Simao (in China) and Mawlamyaing
(on Myanmar's Gulf of Martaban coast). Today the night bazaar sells the usual tourist
souvenirs, like what you'll find at Bangkok's street markets.
In true market fashion, vendors form a gauntlet along the footpath of Th Chang Khlan
from Th Tha Phae to Th Loi Kroh. In between are dedicated shopping buildings: the Chi-
ang Mai Night Bazaar Building is filled mainly with antique and handicraft stores. Across
the street is the Galare Night Bazaar selling upmarket clothes and home decor. The
Anusan Market is less claustrophobic and filled with tables of vendors selling knitted caps,
carved soaps and other cottage-industry goods. The quality and bargains aren't especially
impressive, but the allure is the variety and concentration of stuff and the dexterity and
patience it takes to trawl through it all.
THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Th Chang Khlan;
7pm-midnight
East of the Old City
LOST HEAVENS
Tribal Arts
( 228-234 Th Tha Phae)
This store specialises in museum-quality tribal arts, includ-
ing textiles, carpets and antiques, as well as ritual artefacts from the Yao (also
known as Mien) tribe.
KESORN
Tribal Arts
( 154-156 Th Tha Phae)
A collector's best friend, this cluttered shop has been trading
old stuff for years. It specialises mainly in hill-tribe textiles, beads and crafts.
SIAM CELADON
Ceramics
(
www.siamceladon.com
; 158 Th Tha Pae; 8am-6pm)
This established company
sells its fine collection of cracked-glazed celadon ceramics in a lovely teak building.
