Sunday Market

The Sisters do their weekly shopping at the market.  Today I joined them.
Their main shopping is for fruit and vegetables though you can buy clothing, shoes, material and all kinds of small household items also.

https://youtu.be/ABwvYx7bNZo

The growers bring their produce into the market in large trucks.  The sellers in the market buy their fruit, vegetables, spices, meat etc. from these wealthier growers, at a reasonable price, and then on-sell them at a slightly higher price.  The whole family gets involved in the selling ... weighing, bagging and taking payment.  They sell, sitting cross-legged on the table, using the old balance scales.

I was amazed at the abundance, and huge variety, of fresh produce available.
 
During the week these same people sell from their carts on the side of the road.

Mangoes are in season right now. 
I've learnt how to cut one open ... and eat it!
Just like a kiwi fruit, you cut through the centre making sure you slice it right to the stone. 
You then twist it like you do an avocado.
You're left with the kernel lodged in one end which you spoon round and eat. 
The other half is a delicious 'cup' of fruit!

As you enter the market, which is set up in an area where the roads are closed off for the day, you are approached by coolies.  They all want you to employ them.  The one who is employed will follow you and carry all your purchases, in a panier, on his head.  The temperature on Sunday was 38*.

The coolie carrying our fruit and veggies looked as though he would collapse. 
(You will have seen him in the video beginning to fill his second panier.)
His shalwar kameez was saturated.  Poor chap!
The weights these men carry are amazing.   

Humidity was so high, and, without carrying a thing, I was drenched!