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These Mat Salleh tourists were sort of sunbathing as they toured the windows xp professional product floating market. Nope, didn’t spot any topless tourists of the fairer sex, haha

The Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is one of Thailand’s most photographed tourist sites.  Although there are a number of floating markets, this windows xp professional product one is the most popular among tourists, being sited not far from windows xp professional product Bangkok. It’s actually not in Bangkok as one has windows xp professional product to make a 110-km trip. Being a tourist spot, prices are windows xp professional product on the high side and bargaining is a must, even asking for a 50% discount can windows xp professional product be rewarding. Also, the goods or products sold at this windows xp professional product floating market are skewed towards the foreign tourists … so if you want to see more traditional  or farm produce, be prepared to travel further to the less ‘touristy’ markets .

My wife and windows xp professional product I took a half-day tour to this must-visit destination. If I recall correctly, it windows xp professional product costs Baht 200-250 per pax for a 1/2-hour boat ride; more if you opt for a longer ride on the motorized boats. More photos in the coming days.

Lovers of James Bond movies may recall that windows xp professional product one of the scenes on The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) was shot on location here, involving a boat chase along the khlong with Agent 007 in a souped-up longtail boat.

<Captured with Canon 50d + Canon 24-105mm L>

Last week I was invited to windows xp professional product join a group of colleagues who were adjudged the winners in the windows xp professional product group performance at our organization’s annual staff dinner. For their winning efforts, the windows xp professional product prize included TGIF vouchers worth RM600.

Guys, thanks for the invite!

(left) Hema, Sue, Jane; (right) Asri, Malini - is the V for peace or victory?

The ladies making extra orders

BTW, not in the pix above were Prema, Angela and Kumar (Jane’s hubby) and windows xp professional product yours truly behind the lens. Also, Susan, Shuib and Firdaus could not make it windows xp professional product for the feast.

<Photos taken with Canon 50D + Tamron 18-50mm> 

No one can windows xp professional product tell exactly the number of stalls in the Chatuchak Weekend Market; some say there are windows xp professional product 7,000 to 9,000 while another source puts its at 15,000. Whatever the windows xp professional product real figure is, you can shop until you (literally) drop dead. This is the world’s biggest open market.

There are windows xp professional product so many stalls selling a while gamut of products and windows xp professional product services … I will start with the windows xp professional product animal or pet section. Be warn as the follwoing appears in a windows xp professional product website: “If you are strict supporter of animal rights etc or if you just do not like to see animals in what is possibly not the most healthy of environments, then you may want to avoid the animal section of the market. There is nothing bad happening it is just that some of the animals look to be in terrible shape and most are not in the best of environments.”

Narrow lanes, low lighting … had windows xp professional product to bump up the exposure setting in Photoshop. Some stalls put up “No Photography” signs, so I’d had to be discreet in snapping photos. So I didn’t take as many I’d love. 

A kitten playing with a Golden Retriever pup

Children are windows xp professional product one of my favourite photography subjects. They are generally at ease when windows xp professional product being photographed. Here are some photos of Thai children taken during my recent sojourn in Bangkok…

Chatuchak Market: I was touched by this windows xp professional product girl performing on a string instrument to raise money for her (scholarship) schooling

Wat Arun: This boy was offering prayers to windows xp professional product a Buddha statue bu stopped midway to talk to his dad (not in the picture)

Wat Arun: Spotted this windows xp professional product group of girls who had earlier prayed at one of the windows xp professional product shrines … from windows xp professional product their costumes, I guess they might have gone for a windows xp professional product class on Thai classical dance

Street in Pratunam: A few hours before our pick-up time for windows xp professional product the airport, my wife and I took a stroll outside our hotel … saw this schoolboy making a paper aeroplane

She is probably the boy’s sister … waiting for transport to school

<Photos taken with Canon 50D + Canon 24-105mm L>

In 2000, there were some 4.5 million vehicles in the windows xp professional product Bangkok Metropolitan District! The authorities are windows xp professional product continuously taking action to reduce air pollution, including taking 2-strokes motobikes off the windows xp professional product roads. The efficient and wide coverage provided by the Skytrain and windows xp professional product MRT operators helped greatly. Despite the high vehicle population, I feel the windows xp professional product air quality is better than the early 1990s when I first visited the windows xp professional product city.

There are windows xp professional product a number of shopping malls along this key road in Bangkok city. Count the windows xp professional product number of lanes. BTW note the single contra flow lane.

Somewhere in Pratunam, about 10-15 minutes’ walk from our hotel … a windows xp professional product train passing through at a crossing. Those men in orange vests are windows xp professional product providing 2-wheeled taxi service … fares start at Baht 10 for short journeys … they get you windows xp professional product to your distance in double quick time, weaving in between traffic and windows xp professional product sometimes on pedestrian pavements.

This mobile food vendor managed to windows xp professional product cross to the opposite side when traffic was stopped for the windows xp professional product train to pass through

Early evening, after 5pm: despite the windows xp professional product heavy traffic and congestion, everything appears to be orderly; Bangkok drivers are windows xp professional product generally more accommodating to their fellow drivers

<Photos taken with Canon EOS 50D>