Nadi market

Nadi is a town on Fiji where the airport is. Fiji is one of those countries where there were no towns before the colonial era, but later many immigrants from India came and they certainly knew what a town was.

There is a market in Nadi, half of which half of which is occupied by stands selling kava, a narcotic used in the region. I have seen kava being used in other Pacific countries but only in Fiji I saw it being sold on the market. Some of it was in packets, some in heaps of dried roots.

Only half of the market is occupied by cava, elsewhere one can find fruit and veg, too. Some of it can be very different from what one can see in Europe. For example a stand selling huge breadfruit.

San Juan Chamula

 In the town of San Juan Chamula in the state of Chiapas in Mexico the marked day is Sunday. On that day a market is being put up in front of the church. Next to the market men in characteristic attire, in ponchos made of fluffy fabric, sit on big benches. They are (I was told) magistrates, who are there to judge between people.

It seems that on this market there is also somebody to keep law and order, men in white fluffy ponchos with yellow belts. I certainly have seen them chasing somebody.

Manaus

 Manaus was at one point a very rich town. I guess during that prosperity a covered marked was built. One can buy there all food, but fish especially attracts attention. Fish freshly caught in the amazon, some huge. Even piranhas one can buy there, although they are not the tastiest. The tastiest fish is called pirarucu and can be huge, even the size of a man.

Market in Orccha

Orchha today is a small town in India but in the past it was a capital of the kingdom of Bundelkhand, therefore there are royal palaces in that place. There is also a famous Rama temple, which attracts pilgrims. A market around the temple clearly caters for pilgrims. One can buy there powder to paint signs on the forehead (as Hindus do), flowers to offer in the temple, brass figures of gods to take home.

Fes market

 The market in Fes is actually two very narrow and very winding streets. They are called Talaa Sghira and Talaa Kebira, both wind through the Old Town (or Medina) They are so narrow and so crowded that no mechanical vehicle can enter there, all transport is by mules.

Dar-es-Salam market

 Dar es-Salam is a big city, there is more than one market there. There is, for example, a big fish market by the sea. On markets farther from the sea one can buy things other than fish. For example rice or beans or chickens.

The chickens are sold alive but have the tip of their beaks chopped off and are kept in cages. Some cages are actually self-made from twigs, others are with wire mesh, stack one on the top of the other. Judging after the smell, the chickens don't sell very quickly. They do have enough time to poo.

Masai cattle market

 There is a place just outside Arusha in Tanzania where the Masai buy and sell livestock.

You can see modernity entering the Masai world there. One can see some people wearing shoes and others wearing sandals made of motorcycle tyres.