July 29 continued

After the Black House Museum, we were so hot that we decided to cave in and catch a taxi back to town.  However, since everyone else had come by packaged tour, there weren't any around.  So, we had to walk that blistering hot mile back to the main road to flag down a bus.  Finally it came.  The bus must have come from out in the country as I sat next to a very dark-skinned peasant who chewed on beetle nut leaves as a narcotic against the heat.  (The fan in the bus was not working)   We decided to rest in the only air-conditioned building in this city - our hotel, so we took a tuk tuk pickup back here.

After recuperating, we caught another tuk tuk back to town to go to the famous Saturday Night Walking Market.  This one is even bigger than the nighly Night Bazaar.  It is in a different section of the town.  The number of vendors is incredible.  First we walked through the food section.  Most was food we could not recognize.

There were several vendors selling a Thai version of sushi.  I cannot imagine eating sushi that has been sitting out in the 110 degree weather for hours:-(

The fried insects were there for sale.  Before...

And then after being fried...

Lots of things on skewers...

After the food section, we walked through the clothing section, tourist section, kitchenware section, etc.  It just goes on and on.  Tired, we found a little restaurant for dinner.  We had some spring rolls and fried CROCCODILE - a first for us.

 Back to the room to watch TV.  We have 2 English-speaking channels, one from Russia and one from Germany.