Thailand is known for it’s markets and none are probably more well known than Bangkok’s Chatuchak market, but every town has a market…or two. Pattaya’s biggest market is most popularly known as the Tuesday/Friday market, because it is only open on Tuesday and Friday. For the majority of the week the area where the market is held is just one huge parking lot with a few tarp covered stalls at it’s edges.  On the appointed days the parking lot starts coming to life in the wee hours of the morning.

Hundreds of bamboo poles and tarps turn the once muddy parking lot into a circus big top filled with everything you can imagine. While the market is home to a lot of clothes merchants you can also find household goods, tools, music, gold, small animals and all kinds of delicious Thai food.  Just across the street you’ll find the other part of the market where you can find tons of used goods for sale. Great deals can be found at both markets.

The sights, sounds and smells walking through any Thai market are enough to hypnotize you. I wanted to share a walk through Pattaya’s Tuesday/Friday market with pictures and then I remembered I had video. While you won’t get the smells you will get all the sights and sounds in high definition. So now you can get the feeling of walking through a Thai market as I follow Pookie around during a market day last April just before Songkran ( Thai New Year ).