Thursday, November 1, 2012

Mazan

This village is on the Nano river. We took the road by motortaxi from the Amazon transport spot to Mazan. We want to the very large market in this village. It is large because it serves three rivers.
Pictures of the market in no particular order- they load any which way.
1. Vegetables and fruits- hot peppers sold in bottles with water for sauces
2. Chickens and the woman waves the stick with a plastic bag attached to keep the flies off
3. The indoor merchandise of all sorts
4. Long shaft motors for the native boats and dugouts on the Amazon
5. Our motortaxi on the road
6. Man in market
7. Children having breakfast
8. Barrie checking machetes and post hole diggers
9. Smoked monkey- Orlando is holding up the hand
10. Yuca root - grown in the Amazon and a food staple
11. Vegetables
12. Grains, beans, sugar, yuca etc.
13. She is holding a monkey head smoked
14. Orlando is holding a bag of purple corn juice. A drink or for making pudding.
15. Orlando holding a bag of a corn mash that is used to make masala a corn beer. One bag will make 5-6 beers. This is watered down for women and children.
16. The market with lots of restaurants
17. John the baptist heads
18. Palm fruits 5 sole for a bunch - $1.50
19. Salted fish
20. Boy
21. Woman cutting slits in fish for salting. This breaks the bones so they can be eaten.
22. Vegetables
23. Our motortaxi
24. Orlando demos a machete the main jungle took along with an ax
25. Pigs feet
26. Woman filling bags of a Peruvian dish-spaghetti with beef, veggies and sauce. People are buying this to go
27. Chickens in a carry basket on back of motortaxi
28. Typical house along the road
29. Man on market
30. Smoked pig meat

No comments:

Post a Comment