JJ market

The second place we went to is called the JJ Market. It's a combination outdoor (sort've) and indoor market/mall/mass of humanity.

Here you can see the exterior of the mall part. It's got the same basic intention of a suburban Mpls mall (like Southdale), but the execution is a bit different. Still, I would call the "experience" of this place much more tame compared to the outdoor market.


Here is the real thing: the outdoor market.

It's tough to describe this place using only words. Maybe...flea market/garage sale on crack/meth/steroids? Any possible thing that a human could desire, they have a place that sells it here. If you enter the 'structure' shown to the left, just beware that it's like entering a dungeon in Zelda....every room has 2 or 3 ways you can go, but you may never figure out how to leave.

If you like t-shirts and decorations made of all types of materials..you could spend literally days in this thing, checking it all out. It goes forever.


Seriously, check this out:

This is a picture of just one wall of one store that sells nothing but printed text. Every conceivable volume of every kind of book, newspaper or magazine is somewhere in this shop.

(here you can see one of my hosts, in the pink, rushing to get out of the picture...TOO LATE! muahaha...)

And here was a picture of my in front of the main river that flows through Bangkok, the Chao Phraya. (as you can see I already switched to shorts after nearly having a heat stroke at the palace)


Annnnd a bus: