You should also wake up early one
morning and visit the colourful local market between
Phruksauthit Road and Maharaj Road, where every day
the stalls are pilled high with all the fresh produce
the sea and countryside around Krabi can produce.
It is a real pleasure to wander among the stalls, sampling
the different and often unusual tastes and smells but
go early to see all the wares piled at their highest
and to feel the manic energy of this place, by 10 O'Clock
it has begun to slow down, the day's dealing done.
There are also two popular night markets
one on Maharaj Soi 8 just around the corner from Thaimit
Tours and the other on the river front at Khongkha Road.
These are the best places to sample
many sweet and strange new fruits including the (in)famous
Durian or practice your new language skills ordering
tasty and cheap Thai dishes, deserts and drinks .
Ao Nang offers many of the same shopping
and eating facilities as Krabi though it is perhaps,
a little more familiar to tourists.
This resort town has a wide range of
shops, many right behind the beach and perfect for those
beach essentials that you always seem to have forgotton
or just run out of. For more 'serious shopping', about
a kilometre out of town, on the way to Haad Nopparattara
Beach, is "The Beach Plaza".
This is a modern shopping centre perfect
for buying electronics and brand name clothing and toiletries.
In fact, every imaginable shopping needs is catered
for here under one roof, plus a large choice of eating
options from Thai rice and noodles to Western fast food,
and everything in between.
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