A Local Shopping Experience

 Sometimes we get visitors who want a tour of the city.  It always helps me see things from the eyes of a newcomer.   I decided to take my camera along on this last trip so that you too can see a bit 'Shaheb Bazaar'.  Come, let me show you where I shop.  Too bad I can't give you the sounds and smells as well to give you the full affect.

                                        

    We pass lots of fruit stands. The selection may be limited but there are always neatly piled pyramids of apples and oranges.                                

    

And plenty of flowers.

A hardware/ cookware shop: pans, knives, buckets....

Toupees, combs, scissors, hair oil, socks...

And a girly store:  bangles galore,  hairclips,  nail polish...

There are lots of little-girl dresses to choose from, often with lots of frills and lace. 

As in any other country,  the women love to go shopping together.

. And where there is shopping,  there's always a place to stop for a quick bite to eat. Below are 'fushkas' -a favorite roadside snack here.

This was just the roadside shops.  There are mazes behing the streets filled with stall after stall selling cloth, saris, chadors (blankets), burkas...
And then of course there's the 'kacha bazaar' where we buy the meat and vegetables.  But that's for another day. 
Most certainly we're hot and tire by now   so we hail a rickshaw or 3-wheeled 'auto-rickshaw' and weave our way home through the crowded streets.