This was supposed to be posted on 4/17/08 but the Blogger Gods were in a snit.
We're safely back in Akumal, hustling to get stuff done and get packed. Tomorrow we are driving up to Cancun and taking the ferry to Isla Mujeres for the blogger's meet. It should be fun.
Our last day in Mérida, we ran down to the city market, the mercado Lucas de Galvez, to pick up some herbal medicine for friends over in Akumal. I thought I'd share some pictures as I had the camera with me.
This big pink excess is the administrative offices I think, it is across from one of the entrances to the market.
The actual entrance to the bowels of the market is the dark hole to the left of the pink pillars and to the right of Mimi's red head.
Once inside, it is a warren of narrow halls, lots of people, sellers calling out their wares, chaos and order in tandem.
You can buy fruits and vegetables from any of hundreds of stalls.
Or, from sellers who are set up in the narrow aisles.
You can buy shoes, religious objects, fresh fruit smoothies, great tacos and empañadas, all this is in only one section of the market. We stayed in a one block square, there is more across the street.
In other parts of the market you can be overwhelmed by the fish and meat smells, the caged live animals for food and pets, the rows of food stalls. We were looking for a particular herbalist stall so I've no pictures of that block.
We've found the right place. You can get any of these things cured here.
We got the herbs for our friend, said adios to the lovely statue for sale, and headed back to the car. Hope you enjoyed the visit.
We're safely back in Akumal, hustling to get stuff done and get packed. Tomorrow we are driving up to Cancun and taking the ferry to Isla Mujeres for the blogger's meet. It should be fun.
Our last day in Mérida, we ran down to the city market, the mercado Lucas de Galvez, to pick up some herbal medicine for friends over in Akumal. I thought I'd share some pictures as I had the camera with me.
This big pink excess is the administrative offices I think, it is across from one of the entrances to the market.
The actual entrance to the bowels of the market is the dark hole to the left of the pink pillars and to the right of Mimi's red head.
Once inside, it is a warren of narrow halls, lots of people, sellers calling out their wares, chaos and order in tandem.
You can buy fruits and vegetables from any of hundreds of stalls.
Or, from sellers who are set up in the narrow aisles.
You can buy shoes, religious objects, fresh fruit smoothies, great tacos and empañadas, all this is in only one section of the market. We stayed in a one block square, there is more across the street.
In other parts of the market you can be overwhelmed by the fish and meat smells, the caged live animals for food and pets, the rows of food stalls. We were looking for a particular herbalist stall so I've no pictures of that block.
We've found the right place. You can get any of these things cured here.
We got the herbs for our friend, said adios to the lovely statue for sale, and headed back to the car. Hope you enjoyed the visit.
posted by Jonna at 9:21 PM
5 Comments:
Jonna, the pink building used to be the main post office, now it's the museum of the city. When we moved to Merida (gosh almost 4 years ago), that nice area with the palm tress and benches used to be a street, you couldn't walk on any of the sidewalks because they were full of vendedores ambulantes who were only "mobile" in the sense that their little stands were built on the public street rather than inside the actual mercado.
I didn't even realize that there was a park in front of the post office the shanty town of vendors so covered it.
The Museum of the City is supposed to be first class, but I still haven't managed to go there.
regards,
Theresa
Jonna, that statue is just tooooo much! Do the hands cost extra? I see that in your pantry. You are still getting a pantry aren't you? ;^)
Ilene
So that's the old post office people talk about! Thanks Theresa, maybe we should make it an excursion some day.
I think the hands were wrapped in plastic at the bottom of the statue Ilene, there was another statue but all black behind that one. Really, if I were thinking I would have gotten a pic of the saran wrapped hands. I'll do that next time. We will be going back as my friend always wants some of their linaza, she says it is better than what she can get over on the coast. Linaza = linseed, I had to go and look that up - it seems weird when I know a word in spanish but not english.
That looks like so much fun.
Your pictures have me all psyched up to get back and explore more of Merida now that my kiddos are a bit older. Sorry we didn't get to meet up last Frday night in laya :(
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