No 1 MARKET

Although i am not much of a market person,due to the fact that they tend to be boring as shit and mostly on a saturday or sunday when your usually nursing a hangover.
Or maybe i developed a hate for them when i was a kid and had to follow mum around the murrabit markets for hours while she looked at boring chicks cloths and materials.Either way im not the biggest fan of markets.
Well that all changed the other day when i got to equador and went to a famous south american market.
This market has a long history,a really long history.It has been running since pre inca times,that is sometime before christ was even around,(the big J.C is black here too,but still carry's that hippy beard.I bet he had dreadlocks too),anyway,
Yeah it been around for thousands of years and that in itself was cool to be at the site of that.Local's and tourists alike came from far away for this day.
Apart from that it was soooo huge.It filled in the whole city's streets.It waas really easy to get lost.
There was the animal market that had hundreds of screaming pig getting treated pretty badly and a paddock of skinny shitty cattle.
Of course there was the produce market,i have never seen such colorful and artistic food stalls.From fruits to seeds and even a stall devoted to chickens feet,it was great and now i was experiencing the real culture of south america,there was no new world or western influence here,apart from the loads of gringo's pointing their camera's every which way.
The locals were all dressed bueatifully too in their traditional rope.The men typically had three quarter length whit pants,rope sandels,the famous panama hats (bought two,stylish and good fro traveeling as they roll up small), and the women,well check the photo's when i finally get them up,but they all had really nice gold jewellery,hats and wicked dresse's.
Then there were the arts and craft's,so many and such great quality.
there was stone carving,wood carvins and even crayons made from hollowed sticks straight off the tree.I could'nt help but buy a few things,it was like the your favourite and most
creative part of the best market you can imagine,only the size of a small town.(there is definately potential for an export buisness right here),i could see every
ozzy girl i know spend hours upon hours here and leave with a small shipping container worth of gear.
Definately an enjoyable experience and enjoyable market even for the most avid market hater's.