The Open Market

One of my favorite things to do in any new city and culture is to experience the cities open markets. Today we went to a market just shy of the new building districts. It had both covered and non covered streets from which vendors of all kinds, veggies, fruits, meat, fish, grains, candy, trinkets, and all, would sell and bargain down prices.

Many different views, and smells (some good some bad). There wasn't so much order walking through the market but there was a sense of progression of purchases. And what I mean by this is that, even though it has not been designed in such a way as to formulate and distinct routine for buying products but it does have a series of areas.

For example, when you enter the market, the produce is the first street and stall, to be able to pick up the freshest picked fruits veggies and spices, next came a series of smaller connecting streets that had lined with meats and fish, these connected you in turn to trinket stalls to by kitchen appliances or household needed products, and then when you have made the full circle you end back at the original perpendicular street you started on and that street is lined with the bakeries so that you can pick up fresh goods, and also pick them up last so that they do not get all banged up as you go shopping previously.

Some markets are better, some are not, but each market you visit tells you and shows you the culture of the particular area. but what it also shows you is how markets connect the world in these public social bazaars, and every culture has these. They date back thousands of years and continue to link the world through a microcosm of economic and social fusion.