This morning Nani, Sami and I went to the market to pick up vegetables for tonight. They are having almost thirty relatives over for a huge reunion party. We woke up at 5:30AM and left at 6:00, while the weather was still cool.
We walked for around a mile or two and then got to the market; which Nani says is more local and much cheaper compared to the one we went to yesterday. When we arrived, I understood what she meant: rather than a few stores with well-organized signs and prices and checkout counters, this market was much more traditional, forgoing the conveniences of electricity and computers for the simplicity of scales and weights.
I also liked the look of the fruits and vegetables over the previous market: they seemed much fresher, and there was much more selection. They had everything from locally grown goods to imports such as carrots and even zucchini.
As I was leaving a local man heard me practicing my (horrible) Nepalese with Sami. He came over and said namaste and then asked if we could take a picture. Sure!
Awesome!
On the way home, we got in one of the local hop on / hop off three-wheel buses that fit six people in the back. The light as we got off was shining straight down the street, it was an awesome sight to behold.
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That’s all for now.
Charles
I was born in London, England. At the age of ten, I moved to Hong Kong, which opened up a whole new part of the world: Asia. Since then, I have enjoyed traveling to different locales around the world. Having graduated from High School, I am taking a gap year to work on a computer project in Nepal, and later a cultural immersion trip in Ghana. This is the blog I am using to keep the world notified. 
Very nice B&W –the market makes me hungry! Are the vegetables grown in Nepal? Tomatoes?! I have trouble getting them to grow here.