Guatemalan Markets

Now it's picture time! Which will be much more interesting...


This is outside the market in Guatemala city. The market actually goes underground to the left forefront of the picture and down the corridor at the left in the back and up the corridor on the right hand side. It's like a huge rabbit hole. Alice would have never found her way out.

I was enchanted with these little pyramids of fruit. I wish I had gotten a better shot but the man running the stand was less than happy with me for taking pictures...

During Christmas and especially Semana Santa (Easter week) all Guatemalans use this colored sawdust for carpets. During Christmas they create pictures around the Nativity scene in their houses and for Easter they cover the streets with huge elaborate carpets and then process over them carrying statutes of saints on Easter morning. The market had many stalls with huge baskets of sawdust in these jewel tones. Really gorgeous.

Fresh raw meat, any cut you'd like... I wish my picture of the chicken stall was worth posting. Hundreds of raw chickens piled in huge heaps with a little woman sitting in the center next to a scale...

Vegetables of any kind in rows as far as you can see.

More tomorrow...