Bangkok 3

I love Asian food markets. Everything is always arranged so beautifully, and is usually super fresh! This fish and seafood looked tasty.

  

This market was a little bit different as it is held on a railway line. So 8x per day a train comes through (very slowly) and everyone pulls up their awnings and moves some of the produce out of the way. Produce on the ground is left there as the train is quite high so can travel over it without causing any damage. It seems a bit strange to hold a market on the railway line, but apparently there are no rental fees for stallholders and now it has developed into a bit of a tourist attraction!

You can just about make out the train tracks in the left hand photo. The right hand photo was taken just before the train came past, so all the awnings have been pinned back against the walls. The crazy tourist are all dangling phones and cameras out.

 

Train passing through. In the right hand photo you can see the train just in the distance. It had just passed through and the stall holders were already pulling over their awnings and getting back to business.