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One heat source we observed was charcoal. Here's an iron powered by charcoal:
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French bread sold on the side of the road:
French bread sold from the top of this guy's head:
The vegetable area of the market which reminds me of a farmer's market:
We went out to the market yesterday to aquire fixings for our dinner last night. On account of the holiday, the staff were all off and we were left to fend for ourselves. The Country Director opened his pool to us in the afternoon, which was so very nice. It is definitely swimming weather here.
The market was crowded, winding paths with stalls selling jewelry, hair accessories, fabric, food, shoes. Everything was closing up by 10am for the holiday. There was also an area mostly dedicated to food with vegetables on tables (as seen above) and butchers chopping chickens and fish, lots of fish.
One thing of note while we were out the entire time was that almost nobody begged for money. We passed only a few people in a row who were begging from everyone. The people were so happy to say hello to us and did not want anything in return from our attention. Greetings are super important here. It's fun to go around saying hi and how are you? to everyone as if everyone is your friend.
In some of those pictures, you can see the trash littered about. There are two options for garbage disposal here - burn it or bury it. The air often smells of burning trash. The streets are often littered with trash. Welcome to a developing nation.
This is my last post for a while. We leave shortly for our homestays.
3 comments:
Wow, it does look like a farmer's market -- how neat. Are there familiar veggies, or is it all different? Will you be disposing of your trash by burning it, too?
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There are a lot of familiar vegetables. I'm not eating much of them now because my host family provides most of my food. Unfortunately, it's not very diverse. Once I'm at my site and in charge of my own diet and have a budget for it, I'll definitely try to get some of the awesome veggies here. So, there's potatoes, eggplant, carrots (rare), ginger, cucumber, cabbage, tomato, manioc, and rice all over the place. And peanuts, bananas, pineapple, tons of oranges.
I'll be burning my trash too. There's nothing else to do. I am thinking of saving it for someone to take back to the U.S., but that's probably not feasable. It's surprising how little trash you make here though. Stores don't hand out much in terms of packaging.
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