Night Market, Chiang Mai

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What to buy: Cotton is popular for shirts and dresses since it "breathes" in the hot and humid air. In markets like Changklan, you can find cotton jackets, shirts made by hilltribes, dark blue farmers' shirts and casual clothes. Other cotton products are like bags, purse, blouse, pants, skirt, etc.

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The Chiang Mai Night Bazaar first appeared several centuries ago as a meeting point for traders when the Lanna Kingdom’s capital was a major stop on the caravan route between southern China and Burmese seaports.

What to buy: You name it you can get it. Clothes, rip designer hand bags, copy DVD's, copy watches, handicrafts, jeans, shoes, Hilltribe jewellry. Make sure you try the local sweets sold by the bag or by the grams.

Clustered around it are many restaurants and other useful services, such as camera shops, travel agents, internet cafés and more.

There wre some wonderful artists who can copy from a photo and I wish I had have taken a family photo to be copied.

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The Night Bazaar offers a wide-range of shopping from open air street vendors to sidewalks and small boutiques.

There are a wide variety of dining and shopping along Chang Khlan Road. It is your chance to make use of your haggling and bargaining skills.

You can buy anything from handicraft especially made by hilltribe, clothings, shoes, T-Shirt, accessories. The Nakhorn Ping Night Bazaar Building, Kalare Night Bazaar, The Peak offers an open-air dining terrace and free performances of classical dancing and performances.

However, I would strongly recommend that you make your purchases at the Sunday Night Market and Warorot Market. The price are fixed and you dont really have to bargain hard.

I spent more time enjoying the cheap and excellent massage services and rotee than shopping along here.

What to buy: massage
rotee

the market is nothing in comparison to Bnagkok but its still worth a look, there are some strange smells lurking around every corner and the clothes are non-existent compared to bangkok. BUT, we did get massive machetes that we managed to hang on to all the way home, despite numerous border stops and warnings!!!

What to buy: machetes

What to pay: £2

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The night market in Chiang Mai was the best night market that we saw in Thailand, much better than those in Bangkok, more organized, cleaner, more much variety and the people are really kind and noble.
Also I found that their goods were better quality, similar to what I saw in Chatuchak Market in Bangkok.
Is huge, are several streets selling everything, even there are an open shopping mall with painters working, beautiful handicrafts, inciences, etc
Beautiful experience!!!.
Different was the market on Sunday in the old city, was full of people, with some performances on the street, small tents selling local food and the goods were more locals as well, a nice experience too, but different.

I found the night market in Chiang mai to be one of the best . We were sorry we didn't pick up more silk scarves ...we thought we'd see more variety in bangkok but we didn't . The prices were so cheap ...but they many of them were real silk ( easy to spot the fakes) They come in so many colours....and would sell for 10 times as much in North America.

It's an inexpensive way to pamper yourself, or give as a gift to someone special.

What to buy: Silk Scarves!!

What to pay: You can bargain ..the price range is somewhere between $5.00 50 $10.00 depending on the size.

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The night market is not to be missed while in Chiang Mai. The streets come alive after dark with stalls selling almost everything. It's hard to see everything in one night so you will have to go back again!
Even if you don't need to buy cushion covers, watches, bags, shoes, t-shirts, dvds etc it's still fun to wander along and try your hand at bargaining. I'm sure you'll end up with something you didn't really intend to buy!!
The Akha hill tribe ladies are everywhere with their little wooden frogs. They will pester you to buy something from them but they don't get upset if you refuse.

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Shopping in Chaing mai was less expensive than Bangkok and had more interesting crafts.
The entire experience was a bit overwhelming. The streets are lined with exotic linens, crafts, silk, paintings, home furnishings, and you can't get away without buying a wooden croaking frog.
They have a Thursday night market where local artists display their art. Much more interesting that the night market that happens every night.

What to buy: Depending what strikes your fancy, you can find it here.
If you want fake Prada, or other designer lables you can find some good bargins.
I would however suggest if you are looking for local tribal crafts that you can find some very unique things made by the tribes.
If you buy wood or spices check with your country's custom laws. Wood can be very tricky to get back into certain countries.
I would avoid buying silver as most looked cheap and not real quality.
At the Thursday night market..............
there was one booth that had the most beautiful exotic butterfly pins (real butterflies). If you can find it, they are worth the money. I so regret not buying one!
Custom made journals with silver elephants on the front.

What to pay: The amount varies due to what you buy. Bargin within your comfort level.