Saturday 21 December 2013

Banyan Tree Christmas market

Today, from 1pm to 6pm there was a Christmas market at the Banyan Tree Samui in Lamai. I found out myself at a very late stage, so unfortunately I couldn't make a notification and add it to the upcoming events.

Banyan Tree Christmas market

Great location at the beach, beats winter and snow anytime in my book!

It was very well organised and after we parked our car, it was all golf buggy rides from there onward, first off to reception to register and from there straight to the beach, which made for an interesting and enjoyable ride through the facilities. On the way out we flagged a big buggy down which brought us safely back to our car.

Banyan Tree Christmas market, Vanilla Blue

Old friends of Blue Vanilla out of Fisherman's Village where also selling gifts

We arrived rather early and it was not busy at that early opening hour but an hour later when we left, a steady stream of people was arriving and it was getting nicely crowded without being too busy.

Banyan Tree Christmas market, deli

A high end deli stand with delicious Parmesan cheese to try out and all kinds of exquisite oils, vinegar and you name it

Banyan Tree Christmas market, special needs

2014 calendars on sale with all proceeds going the school for children with special needs

The location was well chosen, on the beach at the bay of the resort. As already mentioned in the first picture, for me this beats snow and winter anytime!

Banyan Tree Christmas market, special food

Banyan Trees Christmas foods

There was plenty of nice food available and the above stand by the Banyan Tree had all kinds of special Christmas food, like ginger bread houses, Marzipan Christmas stollen, English fruit cake, coconut macrones and much more.

Banyan Tree Christmas market, marzipan stollen

A genuine Marzipan Weihnachts stollen, being decimated by the Lemmens clan as we speak

I'm happy we could make it to the Christmas market and also bumping into some friendly and familiar faces was nice. You all stay good and enjoy the up and coming Christmas days.

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Camille

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