On Sundays, Ratchadamnoen Road in the Old City of Chiang Mai is closed to traffic for Sunday Market aka Walking Street. This market is different from the nightly Night Bazaar. The market goes from 4:00 pm to midnight, and the stalls cover about 1 km (0.6 miles). That does not include the many stalls that are on the side streets.

A bride in a wedding gown pretended to shop while her photographer snapped away. An Asian man requested to take a photo with the bride, and she posed with him. He and his tour mates got quite giddy. He might post that photo on Facebook and claim he married a beautiful blonde.

If front of many closed stores were lounge chairs set up for foot massage. More impressively, there were thin mattresses laid out on the ground side-by-side for full body Thai massages. Thai massages are almost always done with clothes on. The picture I took is of a row of empty chairs, but these massage stalls are quite popular. The price for one-hour massages is 150 Baht (USD $4.70).

The lady selling fried silk worms, crickets, two types of big crickets among other insects was looking at me expectantly. I shook my head. She smiled. Kenric who had told his family he would eat things like fried grasshoppers and spiders in Cambodia didn’t even go near the stall. I think he was just trying to gross his Mom out. Maybe he’s saving the experience for Cambodia.

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