The Tamale Market

The market is a fascinating place!   It is so expansive that you could get lost!  At least we could!

Produce is displayed in a splash of colour.  Such variety!

We bought a watermelon every day or every second day!  What fun to eat wonderful watermelons in November - for the price of about $1.50 Cdn each. 

Women spend an entire day, sitting beside a display of whatever they are selling.  It might just be a few veggies.  But they hope to sell enough to be able to supply supper for their family.

 
The market has everything you can imagine, from local foods ready to eat, to Western clothes and items for babies.

In one area of the market there are tailors, who will sew anything you want - and do a great job of it.  The the low cost is hard to believe amazing!  

In the market you can bring your kids along to work!  Cute kids are everywhere!

In the chicken area you can select a live chicken to take home.  There are large cages full of birds.

The chicken vendors are men.  They also operate a "poultry plant."  They are killing and cleaning the birds for those who can afford to buy a chicken ready to go into the soup pot.  

A butcher held up a slab of ribs and then he asked for the camera so Ken held up the ribs and he took the shot.  A budding butcher?