Prices in Thailand are amazingly low on many things.
At the Sunday market, Julie and I ate dinner from street vendors, and including fruit shakes and dessert, it came to $4. Another day, we passed on dinner at a place that sounded too expensive. They wanted 290 baht for dinner. That’s less than $10.
I’ve been looking all over back home for a real leather dress belt, and finally figured I’d have to spend $10 for the leather and buckle and all, and make one. I bought one at another market for $3.
But not everything is less expensive. The camera I bought for this trip is almost 10 percent more expensive here. And the reason I checked? Well, there’s a sticker on the bottom of the camera that says, “Made in Thailand.”
And not everything is genuine, either. We bought a daypack (a small backpack) for Julie that bore the name of a major outdoors retailer. It looked right, and even had what looked like the retailer’s hangtag … until we saw that it proudly proclaimed the pack to be “teshnically advanced.” But we didn’t exactly pay a major outdoors retailer price for it.
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