Galmi Market

Wednesday is market day.  Market day is a tad bit busy.  People packed in like sardines trying to slowly work their way through the mass.  On certain sections there is the incessant honking of those on motorcycles working their way through the crowd.  Of course, there is also donkeys pulling large wagons slowly through the throng of people.

It is truly amazing at how quickly a crowd of children start following you everywhere.  What's in the market, other than people?  Well there are spices, fruits, vegetables, cloth, clothing, touques, pots and pans, tools, ball bearings, soap, meat and butchers, and lots of color.  The butchers were in one area cutting up fresh meat.  Some of it is a little gruesome.  Lot's of flies.  Everything was organized in sections.  If you wanted spices you went to one section, cloth another.  There was an area where the camels and donkeys were.  We will call it the parking lot.

We bought some spices and some fruit.  Carrots are really nice and sweet so we have been buying these as well.  Grace also bought some cloth to get a more tradional African outfit made.