May 132015
 

bazaar-6one of the great benefits of ‘slow’ travel such as our gap year adventure is that you have enough time in one place to stumble across things that a normal tourist has little chance to observe.

sal & i had lunch at a little restaurant we had discovered on our walk this morning, and after our delicious lahmacun we went for another wander up through the back streets of fener and we came upon an amazing market that stretched for many hundreds of metres along a road that had been closed off.

apparently it was the Çarşamba Pazar or Wednesday Bazaar, held once a week in this area of fatih. the scale of the bazaar was extraordinary and its hard to imagine the amount of work to set up all the stalls and awnings etc for just one day a week.

  3 Responses to “bazaar”

  1. Yes, true, these oriental bazars are amazing. Did you smell all these different and( mostly) pleasant, spicy, even alluring and seducing smells , did you already taste some of these oriental fruits? Do it! It`s another world.
    Enjoy your trip to Istanbul!
    Carl

  2. Yes, it truly is amazing. We have one every weekend at the Palm Beach High School and I attend the Aquatic Centre opposite. I get there early, just as the sun comes up and the utes & vans take up most of the car park. I must say there is no comparison. Everything is rather bland, compared to the Bazar you went to and do enjoy your trip to Istanbul !!
    Love and best wishes, Gerd

  3. I just love the vegetables and only wish my little ‘greek’ garden could produce such magnificent colourful stacks of food!

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