Market Bangalore
The other day, my friend and I went to the City Market , which is, to put it mildly, quite and experience. It not too far from one of the 5 Star hotels Bangalore offers. The Market consists of vendors selling from their stalls and from a big, centralized building that looks like it could date back to the days of the Raj.
I stopped at every stall selling spices, and that’s a lot. There are big cones of some of the spices colored yellow which is the saffron or purple brinjals , one right after another. The other vendor stalls sell housewares, what I mainly was were steel, iron cookware and aluminum. I didn’t see much copper. I purchase a cute little teapot. Of course, the main draw at the market is the local produce. Vegetables like cucumbers, onions, the freshest ginger, little and big cloves of garlic, heirloom tomatoes, I wanted to purchase every vegetable they looked so appetizing. We managed to make it down to the basement of the building and that’s where we found a beautiful array of flower vendors. Roses, Daisey’s, even marigolds . They sell the flowers by the weight. I bought a pound of marigolds. The basement was awash with color. We took tons of pictures and we even got some of the vendors to give us their email addresses so we could send them some of the pictures we took of them behind theirs stalls.
We found out that we had to stay vigilant as we walked through the market, a couple of times my friend and I got whacked by men carrying big bags of dirt or fertilizer. We weren’t sure, but it hurt what ever it was. As we were leaving the market, we saw an elephant walking down the road by the market and a man was on board. We ran up to catch it, loaded down with bags from the market, and asked if we could pet it. The elephant was friendly and doing its best to take what was in our market bags. We let it have some vegetables. I can’t explain why, but petting and feeding the elephant made our trip to the market even more special.
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