Wholesale Chaos at Kalamati Bazaar

I did not write the following. But it's a fantastic description of the market I visit every Monday and Friday with my house father to buy vegetables for Umbrella. 

'Wives haggle with shopkeepers as bored husbands carry their purchases, checking into their mobile phones out of habit. Cauliflowers are sniffed, fruits bit into, and tomatoes squeezed. Fish wither their last in buckets of dark water, oblivious to their imminent death at the hands of the dark heavy man hovering about. The place buzzes with activity, with an organized chaos that is ubiquitous to city life.

The mood of the place injects a caffeine-like rush in us as we take photos, get out of peoples' ways and counter curious gazes with half smiles. The largest vegetable market in the capital, it sees people from as afar as Panauti [approx. 32Km away] bring in their fresh produce, fruits, vegetables, fish. And people from as far or even further away flock here to buy it from them at wholesale rates.'

The photos that accompanied the article are much better than mine.  But at least you can get a feel for what it's like. :) 

Motorcycle parking

Green leaf produce area

Carrots and turnips

Sourcing out good green beans

Inside Kalimati Market, wholesale area

Those are bags of potatoes. 

The loaded delivery van

This weeks purchases on the porch of the office, waiting for representatives from each house to come collect their share