Eating and Drinking at Bangkok’s Chatuchak Market
In case you missed our last post, we featured all of the fabulous things to shop for at Bangkok’s Chatuchak market (that’s JJ market to you locals). But it’s impossible …
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Shopping Chatuchak Market: the Ultimate Photo Guide to Bangkok’s Best Market
Where can you find a market filled with innovative, indie designers, pour-over coffee from just roasted beans, and unique, locally-sourced edible treats? Nope, we’re not talking about the latest overhyped …
How I Almost Left my Good Luck in Japan: Omamori
Sometimes, a souvenir is so ubiquitous that you lose any sense of urgency to buy it. You know you’ll see the souvenir again (maybe even many times over), so you …
Insadong, Seoul– Shopping for Handmade Crafts, a Photo Gallery
Traditional Korean Souvenirs from Insadong Seoul is filled with shopping— it seems like there are high-end mega malls around every corner. Enormous wholesale markets like Dongdaemun and Namdaemun sell everything …
Experiencing Thailand’s Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
A Souvenir Market like no other– Thailand’s Saduak Floating Market About an hour outside of Bangkok, Thailand, lies a market so unusual that it’s worth visiting for the spectacle alone– …
How to Shop Burmese Longyi Skirts (and wear them back home)
Photographer, world traveler and university professor Karen Stafford recently made a return trip to Myanmar (formerly Burma). While there, she picked up more of her favorite longyi skirts, the traditional …