With regard to travel, I also like to experience the real popular wind of the local people in addition to the scenery on the way, and one of the most happy things I’d like to do is to go to the local vegetable market, which is the most direct way to get a quick picture of the local people’s life.
The same is true in Chiang Mai, Thailand. One of my favorite farmers’ markets in Chiang Mai is Valolo. Located in the northeast corner of Chiang Shanghai to Chiang Mai flight Mai ancient city, near the Meiping River, the Valolo market is not a real market, because it is distributed in an old street hundreds of meters long, not so much a market as a bazaar.
When you come to Valolo market, you will first see many street flower shops, Phalaenopsis, chrysanthemum, jasmine, magnolia, lotus. There are all kinds, dizzying and pleasing to the eye. In addition to selling all kinds of flowers for decoration, the shop owners also make flowers into various bouquets of hanging ornaments, which are used to worship sacrifices and pray for blessings or as car spices. It is well received by the local people.
At the corner of the flower shop are seductive fruit stalls, with a wide variety of tropical fruits coveted, durian, longan, red maodan, mango, mangosteen, dragon fruit. A variety of fresh seductive, people can not help swallowing saliva.
This is not only the market that locals often go to, but Shanghai to Changde flight also one of the hottest scenic spots in Chiang Mai. It is not only popular with Western tourists, but also the favorite of Chinese tourists. Tourists to Chiang Mai, but those who like to eat, will almost come here to taste Chiang Mai local food, especially fruit.
But now that the Valolo market is in chaos, many vendors like to drive up prices. Especially for foreigners (Chinese), they will also pay high prices. So there’s nothing to bargain here, at least cut off. Durian, for example, is even similar to, or even higher, prices in China.
Valolo market is divided into several different regions, agricultural tools, fishing gear, ingredients, daily necessities and local characteristics of commodities, food, etc., equivalent to the domestic wholesale market, here to buy local specialties is a good choice, specialties have durian dried, dried mango. Pineapple dry and so on, the price is much the same, can first compare before buying, and when buying also must remember to cut the price.
The Valolo market never closes, 365 days a year. Day is the bazaar, the evening is the night market, has become the gourmet gathering place, all kinds of snacks are full of eyes, good quality and low price, it will be the paradise of foodie, it will be another reason why you fall in love with Chiang Mai.