Decided to put this in a new post as there are a few markets that we saw on the first day and now on our 'day off' (Saturday!)
1. Thief's Market - we walked through our first market called the "Thief's Market". Essentially you could find anything to do with automobile parts at this market. The story goes that it was not unusual for parts of a car to be stolen and then the owner having to find them in this market and buy them back!
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Lots of spare parts. As our tour guide Rohan said
"Indians are very good at recycling everything..
except garbage" |
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An old "Ambassador" car in amongst some spare parts
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2. Farmer's market - an amazing collection of fruit, vegetables and flowers!
The shop owners have these little ropes that they use to fling themselves out of their small stalls (caus you can't waste space with a little gap). Everything looks so fresh and organic...makes our supermarkets seem so artificial!!
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| Fruit and veg galore |
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| Flower market |
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| A shop owner swinging out of his shop! |
3. KR Market - this was one of those "wow I'm in India and there really are so many people" type of experiences.
To capture some of the craziness, I recorded a couple of videos that you can watch below. (have updated to include a second video!)
Essentially this market is in the centre of the city and was really really busy!!! The flower part of the market is absolutely amazing - something that is soo expensive and a luxury item for us, is considered very differently here where ladies wear flowers in their hair and flowers are bought regularly for the house or to welcome guests.
Check out the new video here (was too big to insert directly)
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| The street we navigated down to get to the market |
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| Amazing flowers everywhere! |
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| Standing in the middle of the flower market with 3 of the other Young Professionals |
More on the communities we've been working with next!!
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