00:36And here is the Chattu Chak, a weekend market, quite possibly the most famous marketplace in Bangkok.
00:53Now we are in the biggest market in Bangkok, Chattu Chak. Here you can find everything. Let's go shopping.
01:06With over 200,000 visitors on a daily basis, it is the world's largest and most diverse weekend market.
01:26With a combined area of more than 142,000 square meters, the market houses as many as 15,000 stalls.
01:38With over 500,000 visitors on a daily basis and provide an incredible forecast for the $300,000, the market houses as many as 15.
01:58With over 300,000 visitors on a daily basis, the market houses as quasi-bying, as long as we do, and the market houses as well as the market houses are generally willing to buy.
02:03Visitors spend up to 30 million Thai bots or 743,000 US dollars on goods daily.
02:33The market is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends, but in fact it opens its doors to visitors at 10 a.m. and closes them at dusk.
02:48You can find all things imaginable here, including shoes, perfume, kitchenware, watches.
03:06What is this?
03:13It's Thai?
03:14Oh, wow.
03:15Like real.
03:16Yeah, like real frog.
03:18Well, if you're looking for exotic fruits or fancy gifts, then this is the place to go.
03:28Is it the durian, the one that smell bad?
03:33Yeah.
03:34Is it the durian, the one that smell bad?
03:36Yeah, smell.
03:37Yeah.
03:38And the dry one smell also bad?
03:40Yeah.
03:41It's also bad.
03:42It's so bad.
03:43It's not bad.
03:44It's not bad.
03:45Ah, the difference?
03:46Different durians?
03:47Yes.
03:48It's inside the same, but different.
03:50Ah, which smell the worst?
03:52This one?
03:53Yeah.
03:54Good?
03:55You like?
03:56Yeah, I like it.
03:57It's nice.
03:58How much?
04:00Ah, 450.
04:01450?
04:02Yeah.
04:03It's like 12 bucks.
04:0612 bucks for to eat something that smell very bad.
04:14You have to try?
04:15Yeah.
04:16Oh, I'm a little bit scared.
04:22Yeah.
04:23Not very bad, actually.
04:25Yeah.
04:26And you, you try to.
04:27Okay.
04:35What do you think?
04:39It's fine.
04:40It's fine.
04:41Not very bad.
04:42But strange.
04:43Strange.
04:45Thank you very much.
04:55It's almost all day past, but we still haven't checked everything.
05:02This market is so huge.
05:04Huge.
05:24Unlike anything else, though, the market is overflowing with clothes stalls and teeming with locally made replicas of famous brands.
05:31What do you know?
05:32Is it original?
05:33Original.
05:34You have original, not original?
05:35This pair of replica designer shorts here from the latest collection would cost you about $5.
05:52But if you were to order them from the official store, that is, if the shorts were available on the website, which they never were, you would have to show up $60 bucks.
06:05Apart from replicas, the market is also known for locally manufactured clothes.
06:10Excuse me.
06:11Hi.
06:12Is it, uh, you make it?
06:13Is it your brand?
06:14Yes.
06:15Yes.
06:16And you have fabric or you make by yourself?
06:18Um, other fabric from the factory.
06:19From the factory.
06:20From the factory?
06:21And design is by you?
06:22Who made design?
06:23By all my...
06:24It's yours?
06:25Yeah.
06:26Oh, nice.
06:27What's your name?
06:28Luz.
06:29Luz?
06:30Nice.
06:31Very beautiful.
06:32Good job.
06:33Do you have a lot of customers?
06:34People know about you?
06:35I have more.
06:36I have more.
06:37I have more.
06:38I have more.
06:39I have more.
06:40I have more.
06:41I have more.
06:42I have more.
06:43I have more.
06:44Do you have a lot of customers?
06:45People know about you?
06:47Oh, I have more.
06:48Yeah?
06:49Yeah.
06:50And how you make advertising in Facebook or how people know about...
06:54A little bit on Instagram.
06:56Instagram?
06:57Yeah.
06:58Nice.
06:59Very good.
07:03All garments sold here are without size labels.
07:06Only because all the clothes are of the same size, fitting on the average Thai person.
07:14Unlike a majority of Asian markets, vendors here do not shout about their goods or grab visitors by the hands, nagging them to buy what they're selling.
07:27The vendors believe that the best way to attract tourists is to noodle on their guitar.
07:33All in all, this great market is a calm and tranquil place where you can focus on what you need to buy without being distracted.
07:43Nice.
07:44The wallet was just 10 baht.
07:45It's almost nothing.
07:46Hi, excuse me.
07:47Is it 10 baht?
07:48Yeah.
07:49Yeah.
07:50It's already night, but it looks like it's just beginning.
07:53More and more than people come here.
07:55So go to the box and I could call...
07:56It is so quick.
07:57Is it 10 baht?
07:58Yeah.
07:59You can buy this one.
08:00Well, don't you think?
08:01Yes, I can use it.
08:02I can do it.
08:03I'll buy it right now.
08:04Okay.
08:05Can we open it?
08:06I'll buy it!
08:07It's already night, but it looks like it's just beginning.
08:09More and more than people come here.
08:11I'll buy it.
08:42And what better way to conclude our time in Bangkok than to enjoy a ride on a Ferris wheel?
09:00Asiatic Sky, also known as the Big Wheel, features 42 air-conditioned cabins.
09:11Measuring 50 meters in diameter and 60 meters in height, Bangkok's high-rise wonder is thought to be one of the tallest Ferris wheels in the world.
09:20Welcome to Bangkok.
09:42This is my last day in this city.
09:46It was cool.
09:48Sometimes too hot, too spicy, too sweet and too sour.
09:53But I like it.
09:55It's like a typical Asian dish.
09:57If you want to try something Asian, go to Bangkok.
10:01This is a city of contrast.
10:03You can find here everything, really.
10:06You can experience a lot of things.
10:08And I like it that I've come here.
10:09So let's go beyond.
10:12See you next time.
10:13See you next time.
10:43In the upcoming edition of Going Beyond, we'll continue our exploration of Thailand.
10:53Next time, we'll journey to the island of Koh Chang, a major tourist destination known for its many resorts.
11:01There we'll visit a local leisure park.
11:08And take a ride on an elephant.
11:15I'm very sorry to be on this elephant.
11:19I wouldn't do it again.
11:21Another problem.
11:24We'll also make an attempt to knock out a Thai box champion.
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