Our Arequipa tour included the city market, very interesting to us because of all the things we had never seen before...
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| The mercado |
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Peru boasts (yes, boasts) of 3,000 varieties of potatoes; one of
our guides said 4,000, but then he was the one who claimed the
Pieta in Puna was authentic and the one in the Vatican was
only a copy |
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| Popcorn store; some of the corn kernels are thumbnail sized |
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| Spare animal parts |
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| Yuge fish, 3 feet long, half a foot thick |
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| More fishes |
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| Among the 4,000 varieties of potato |
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| Among the 5,000 varieties of Peruvian potatoes |
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| Ex-roosters |
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| Memories of Kauai; vengeance is mine |
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Among the 6,000 varieties of Peruvian potatoes; under the
hundred pound sack, is a small man, my age; travel often
makes you wonder at the way the cards were dealt |
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Muy interessante...freeze-dried potatoes, the
old-fashioned way: high in the Andes, freeze
in snow for days, then air-dry for days |
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| Frutas |
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| Including many new to us |
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| Ditto |
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| Potato-bread with cute faces; among the 7,000 varieties |
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The juice bar, which extends the entire width of the large
building; there must be 50 independent stations |
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| Big corn |
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| Beans? |
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| Grains |
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| Hat aisle |
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Ornaments for ceremonial occasions, weddings,
birthdays, bar mitzvahs, etc; need a real
stuffed baby alpaca? |
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| Maybe an alpaca fetus? |
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| Not so much cheese |
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| Lots of coca leaves |
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| Does you church need a Mary Magdaline? |
