Khao Lak Market Day

Just a bit of extra about Khao Lak. We have a large market to the North of Town that is open every day and has fresh veggies and fruit. It’s about 6km form our shop in between Bang Niang and Khuk Khak – hidden behind some shop houses, so not too many tourists now about it.

On Monday, Wednesday and Saturday we have our large traveling market come to town. This has much more of the carnival atmosphere and the fruits and veg are fresher and more selection.
There is also a lot of clothes, posters and CD’s for sale. Many of the people who go are the local Burmese (our migrant laborers) so many of the posters are in Burmese (different language and writing) and feature different people.

Saturday is the big day and there are lots of extra booths. The flower lady’s come out, the perfumes and wathces and lots of other stuff.

It’s also a great way get cheap food. There are lots of weird treats for sale. Anything from curry puffs/samosas to homemade gelatin drinks (like Jello shooters, except with seeds and other yuck and no alcohol).

We do most of our shopping here (when we get the chance). The local stores do have most of the sundries we need. But this does a lot for the local income.

One of the unusual and unexpected affects of the tsunami was the proliferation of hydroponic
gardens. Very good macro investments for NGO’s and it means that there are heaps of good, safe veggies to eat! So fresh salad a couple times a week – that’s hard to find in Thailand.

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