{"id":4357,"date":"2010-10-19T21:50:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T01:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2010-10-19T21:50:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T01:50:49","slug":"thai-travel-tidbits-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2010\/10\/19\/thai-travel-tidbits-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai travel tidbits: Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chiang Mai's Three-Story Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prices in Thailand are amazingly low on many things.<\/p>\n

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 <\/em>for dinner. That\u2019s less than $10.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been looking all over back home for a real leather dress belt, and finally figured I\u2019d have to spend $10 for the leather and buckle and all, and make one. I bought one at another market for $3.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s a sticker on the bottom of the camera that says, \u201cMade in Thailand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s hangtag \u2026 until we saw that it proudly proclaimed the pack to be \u201cteshnically advanced.\u201d But we didn\u2019t exactly pay a major outdoors retailer price for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s less than $10. I\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1262],"class_list":{"0":"post-4357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-thailand","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}