Bangkok, 2 Feb (EFE) .- All weekends, the Chatuchak Market, the largest outdoor world, comes alive in Bangkok and receives 200,000 visitors a day, coming from everywhere and knowing that this place all it may happen.
Souvenirs from Thailand, laundry independent, furniture and even illegal animals designers: all this can be found within this maze in the shape of popular shopping for whose corridors are mixed colors, smells and sounds.
The crowd that addresses this eccentric place that can be seen from the train station Mo Chit in the north of the city.
Tawin, a lady of 80, makes a living selling seasoned fish in Chatuchak, a "secret recipe" that only their children and grandchildren know.
She said, "things are not going so well" as in the past, despite the large movement of foreign tourists, attracted by the fame of the market, help increase sales.
"Now, the Thais do not want to spend money and lots of shops are closing," he said.
The market vendors appear to be one of the few who did not increase prices, however, the young Titrapa, Thai 17, complains that eat at Chatuchak is "too expensive" for a middle class person.
"Besides, bathrooms and common areas are not good. With so many people circulating, the toilets are poorly maintained and insufficient," he criticized.
The Chatuchak was founded in 1942 by Plaek Pibunsongkhram, former prime minister, who had the idea of deploying an open-air grocery store in every town in Thailand.
Today, its more than 27 hectares are home to approximately eight thousand shops distributed methodically by product categories and bounded into sections.
Jane, 30, going to the market every weekend to sell caps and backpacks is a happiness, for Monday through Friday she works as an administrator.
"Four years ago come without fail to Chatuchak. I enjoy dealing with people, especially with foreigners, who are super friendly," he said.
The truth is that the market for ever. If during the week the focus is the sale of flowers and plants, on weekends the popular market turns to the wholesale trade.
Since its inception, this huge market has gone through different locations of the city, beginning at Sanam Luang and Sanam Chai in the first 30 years, and ending within the limits of Chatuchak Park, time in which won its current name and where he remains.
In 2013, the SRT, the railway public company and owner of the land, threatened to close the emblematic market if traders did not accept the rent increase, but the matter went no further.
However, Darara, who for more than three decades working in a tent plants in Chatuchak, says that before paying 1,000 baht (just over R $ 100) rent and the value has increased tenfold since 1985.
Phillip and Laura, newcomers from Frankfurt, repeat the experience in Chatuchak after the first visit only a year ago.
"This place is very special," she said, with enthusiasm and have fun walking among the narrow aisles.
"Suddenly you're seeing a silk pashmina and so looking back comes across a giant tortoise eating lettuce in a cage," he said.
Asked what the Chatuchak is most strange, the old Tawin trader who also helps his grandchildren in a tent of natural drinks, repeated the question several times before answering. "For me, nothing here is strange The question should be 'What is strange?' "Franco said with a smile on his face.
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