I have shopped in some very strange and interesting places. The best place I have ever been to is the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. It is located about 80 km from Bangkok, in Thailand. The market is over 100 years old and has hardly changed in all that time.
What made my visit to this market so special is that the whole market is on a canal and the brightly-dressed merchants sell their goods from their colourful boats. The day that I was there, there were hundreds of boats crowded together, where you could boy everything from fruit and vegetables to clothes, toys and even cooked meals. If you wanted to buy something, you could either wait on the banks of the canal and for the boats to pass by of you could hire your own boat and join in the fun!