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Shopping With a Difference
Kad Luang Airport

For most visitors to Chiang Mai, the favorite place where you can shop local food as well as other stuff would be the famous Kad Luang, or Warorot Market. Now, loud rumor has it that an option is presently available. There is a new market; very modern, air-conditioned, and just a few minutes away from Chiang Mai International airport, where you can buy souvenirs and traditional food of the same as, or higher quality than those of the original Kad Luang. The name of the market, you ask? It's aptly called Kad Luang Airport.

Kad Luang Airport is located in phase 2B of the Central Airport Plaza. This new over 3,000 square meter area of the G floor was completely renovated to be khon muang's Kad Luang. Its concept is an modern adaptation of Kad Luang or Kad Luang Noi, where the charms and the odors of the old traditional market are maintained. It features the environment of kad mua (an old style market that includes all the kinds of product you can imagine), for Thai and foreign travellers alike to enjoy. Here in this Kad Luang Airport, you can find food, local products, fresh vegetables, and cold-climate fruits. The shops are well selected for their strong brand presence and quality, with the likes of Jae Hong's nam prik num (traditional chili paste), Wanasnan's naem (fermented pork sausage), Meng Rai's sai ua (northern sausage), among others. What's more, the shopping is made more convenient with powerful air-conditioning, and vast parking space. The market as such is certainly, easily second to none in Chiang Mai.

On then, because the elephant show we’re heading for begins at 9.45. and we need to buy bananas and sugar cane to feed the pachyderms. This is at the Mae Sa Elephant Camp, I should inform you, and we made it in time to see the big grey beasts playing in the stream there, splashing around, spraying each other - and sometimes the spectators - and having a jolly gambol. And then seeing them at their remarkable routines: kicking a football around - watch out Renaldo! - playing the mouth-organ and massaging their mahouts, can you believe it? But the biggest deal here was the elephant painting demonstration. Yes, it’s really true. They’re great big and talented daubers, and the evidence is there right before your eyes, in the canvases of trees and flowers they so skilfully depict. But the performance and the viewing over, then came the biggest deal of all. Sound out the trumpets - Paapararpap! We visited and played with the cute little almost newly born baby elephants, some five minutes away down shady lush paths to the Nursery Camp, but not before stopping off to look into the big sala with the pictorial history of the camp itself - featuring both elephant and human paintings and photographs too.

So, when paying a visit to Chiang Mai, try planning a half-day trip to Kad Luang Airport, and you will find that shopping can be delightful and different.

G.M.