Chiang Mai Thai

Chiang Mai Pagoda

Chiang Mai Pagoda 1

Chiang Mai Buddha Sculpture inside Pagoda

Chiang Mai old northern style Temple very similar to temples in
Burma or Myanmar

Chiang Mai Thai Classic Dance at the stage at the night bazaar

Chiang Mai Dancer at the night Bazaar

Chiang Mai Food and Restaurant at the night Bazaar

Here you will find all kinds of foods, handicrafts, artwork, textiles and other items from the region. There are plenty of bargains, keep in mind, no haggle, no fun. Plenty of so called antiques are on display, but, they are fakes almost all the times.

The night bazaar is just behind the high rise hotels and has not only shopping to offer. Several huge open air restaurants grouped around several food markets are at service, more on the following pages.

The food markets cater for almost every taste, all is served in a clean environment.

Thai music wobbling through the air and on the huge stage Thai classic dancing is performed, This integration on such a huge scale is really “well done”, but before you arrive there you must push your way through hundreds, maybe thousands -nobody know, as usual in northern northern Thailand. It wont matter anyway, because its great. There are the Indian Sikhs,

 Singapore Chinese and the groups from mainland China, Japanese guys, all kind of Farang, Pakistani, Arabs with women gliding like black covered mummies, totally invisible.

A real great contrast are all the beautiful Thai girls and ladies who have no shy to show that they are real pretty. Actually Thai women have a high level of emancipation and the Thai guys and other have enough self confidence in relation with the women.

Ask any Thai working here where she or he come from, likely they will tell ..“from Isaan” the remote north eastern corner of northern northern Thailand with the highest amount of population and as usual in such a constellation also the highest amount of poor people in the Kingdom.

- Almost all upper market Chiang Mai shopping temples, usually with the factory in the backyard are located at San Kampaeng Road, a

virtual super shopping mall, all items below are from factories at that road.

Beautiful silverworks, jade items, furniture -mostly of teak and rosewood-, teak carving, marvelous Thai silk materials, fashion items, jewelry and paper products such as hand painted umbrellas. Some other craft and special furniture manufacturers are in the Hang Dong area.

Celadon ceramics from northern Thailand is offered in many places, so are bronze sculptures. Beautiful lacquer ware is shown and one can watch how its created. Many useful and very decorative items like this celadon tableware are produced in Chiang Mai. Celadon ceramics made in northern Thailand have a long tradition. The oldest were found in some shipwrecks off the Malaysian east coast from the 15 th. century.

Thai celadon is the real thing for your house, exquisite celadon ceramic tableware, high value teak wood relief artwork for the ultimate wall decoration and the teak - rosewood movable bar, the useful party star and eye catcher in every house.

Just fill it up with you preferred liquids and have a good time. Many useful and very decorative items like this celadon tableware are produced in Chiang Mai.

Celadon from Thailand and China in a Shipwreck off the Malaysian Coast

Celadon and pottery from Thailand and China in a Shipwreck off the Malaysian Coast

Sandalwood Carving Chiang Mai

There is also all kind of beautiful jewelry available, such as jade jewelry, ruby jewelry, diamond jewelry and various other gold and silver jewelry.

This Thai silk moth is polyvoltine, meaning it can produce at least ten batches of eggs each year.

They hand reel the silk from the Thai moth from green cocoons.

Thai Silk Bedding

These silk cocoons still contain the live pupae. The pupae from these cocoons are not killed before being reeled because that would make reeling very difficult. What they do is they place the green cocoons in hot, almost boiling water.

This process loosens the end of the thread. They only have about 10 days to finish this process before the moths come out and ruins the cocoon.

Many times, the workers run out of time. This limits the scale of the industry and partially explains why silk is so expensive. The most experience workers usually only produce about 300 kg per day.

Here is a Chiang Mai video.