Wualai Walking Street

No time for Chiang Mai’s famous Sunday Walking Street? Then pencil in Saturday’s smaller ‘Wualai’ market instead. In fact, many visitors actually prefer Wualai Walking Street to the larger one by Tha Pae Gate, thanks to its excellent range of locally-made products, as well as the fact that there’s room to walk, rather than shuffle. The market is named after Wualai, which links to Thipanet Road – just off the south side of the old city walls. Stalls and street vendors start to set up from late afternoon on Saturday, with things winding down around 22:30.