Night-bazaar To Relocate To New Site

[Ricardo]

City-planners are believed to be working on the relocation of Chiang-Mai's famous Night-Bazaar, to a new site adjacent to Ratcha-Pruek, the beautiful park based upon the 2006 International Garden_festival, and Chiang-Mai's Night-Safari Experience, which is a magnet for animal-lovers and high-class gourmets from all over Asia.

The space available at the new site, which is on the edge of Doi-Suthep/Doi-Pui National Park, will enable our premier tourist-attraction to expand and provide world-class facilities, with ample space for support-services and future-growth, in marked contrast to the existing cramped site, which lacks parking for the millions of visitors, and room for related retail-malls of a high-enough standard to continue to attract premium-tourists.

Chiang Mai Zoo is believed to be studying the possibility of creating a new Panda-Experience facility, to maximise the financial-benefits of the new touristic-hub, with an opportunity for hands-on petting of our most-famous residents, for younger children, although the exact details & pricing have yet to be worked-out.

The development will also enable visitors to fully-enjoy the delightful Night-Safari, which has attracted world-wide publicity, since it first opened a few years ago. Transport-links will also be improved, as part of the development, with a branch of the planned city-centre light-railway system running past the International Airport, and on to the new focus for tourists.

In a related development, it it believed that the existing rail-terminal may move to the Airport, when the new high-speed rail-network is completed, thus creating a modern & efficient transport-hub to serve North-West Thailand into an exciting new future, and also to minimise the carbon-footprint of the millions of extra visitors who are now expected. It is hoped that many of the new-arrivals will be from southern-China, via the high-speed-rail network, and hoteliers are eagerly anticipating their need for accomodation while in the area.

Another happy benefit of the new development will be that the old Night-Bazaar district will now become available, for further 5-star hotels and redevelopment, which may well see the eagerly-anticipated completion of earlier plans to make Chiang Mai a centre for gambling-venues, as it becomes the new 'Las Vegas of Northen-Thailand'TM

Of course this also has implications for businesses currently serving Chiang Mai's three-million annual-visitors, who may wish to relocate to the new Tourist-Development Free-Zone, or at least open new branches of their existing operations. Whether this will include venues popular with locally-resident expats remains to be seen, but the planners expect that many will seek to take advantage. Chiang Mai's famous wooden-frog ladies are expected to meet shortly, to decide whether to follow the tourists to the new site, or whether to split their numbers between the two areas.

Property-developers are believed to be lining-up for access to the new site, anticipating a boom in sales and house-prices, as a result of the new hub for visitors. Local industrialists from Ban Tawai are hopeful of a surge in demand for their own style of wooden-housing. An exciting future awaits us all.

[basinboy]

Happy April Fools day

[daoyai]

Ok, you had me going there for awhile, APRIL FOOLS day, brilliant.

[Ulysses G.]

April fools indeed!

[sarahsbloke]

You got me too

Edited April 1, 2010 by sarahsbloke

[L&J]

I believe that is unethical to utilize minutes from a Chiang Mai Regional Planning Meeting as some kind of April's Fool joke.

At least include something totally absurd that isn't actually being considered so that we can see the humor intended. What you included seems far too plausible by local standards.

[Donnyboy]

I believe that is unethical to utilize minutes from a Chiang Mai Regional Planning Meeting as some kind of April's Fool joke.

At least include something totally absurd that isn't actually being considered so that we can see the humor intended. What you included seems far too plausible by local standards.

not whenever the word "Hub" is used, Aprils fools day or not

[AmeriThai]

LOL! I forgot about April Fools Day. I was having a hard time imagining why on earth the Zoo would want to be so reckless to let "younger children" pet a panda.

[Maccheroncini]

Sometime I wish many April fool gag are real

[Ricardo]

I believe that is unethical to utilize minutes from a Chiang Mai Regional Planning Meeting as some kind of April's Fool joke.

At least include something totally absurd that isn't actually being considered so that we can see the humor intended. What you included seems far too plausible by local standards.

They have Regional Planning in Chiang Mai ?

It is indeed not easy, to come up with something plausible for April Fools Day, and which hasn't yet been considered sometime, at least in-passing. I myself think that saying it would all happen soon, is the dead-giveaway, after all TiT where delays often occur.

I think that the airport/railway international-interchange may be a totally-new idea, but suspect that pet-a-panda must have been considered sometime, it would surely be a money-maker ? !

Anyway, Happy April Fools Day, everyone ! Now off to the bar, to start planning for next year !

Edited April 2, 2010 by Ricardo

[rebo]

Sometime I wish many April fool gag are real

Sometimes I wish many realities would be April fool gags ...