Part 1
I didn’t find the fat pigs for sale, but I did eventually see one small one being carried off in a cane basket. Unfortunately it happened too fast for me to record it.
I visited about half a dozen markets in Jinghong and the surrounding villages. All were full of colour and life not found in Australian markets. The fact that people in ethnic dress were common and laws around food handling are different created some of the colour. Also there’s nothing like enormous piles of red chilis and the colourful dried foods on display to give shopping a bit of vibrancy.
MARKETS IN JINGHONG
This is the entrance to one of the markets in Jinghong. Sellers have a single garage space with a roller door. The baskets on the women’s backs are very common. There are now some made from snthetic materials, but 95% I’ve seen are of the bamboo variety.
The main market area consisits of a large roofed area having rows of short benches for produce. This one is selling meat.
Vendor and colourful vegies.
Some of the examples of tofu on sale. The tofu in the right hand corner looked rather “furry.” Not sure if it was a feature of the product or it was well past its “Best by Date.”
Whatever is in the metal bowl is being distilled in the vat behind. This was in one of the small lock up stores under the big open spaced market.
This is another small lock up shop under the roofline. It sold containers, household and farm requirements.
This critter was poking out from a bag attached to a motor bike and was waiting for its new owner to return.
Electric tricycle with its tray neatly arranged with bones.
Fast food. Need to wake the vendor first. Some of the small internal lock up shops are in the background.
These were lucky enough to be sold from the top of a cane basket instead of from inside a metal cage. Chooks in China have much more attractive colouring than I remember from Australian chooks.
JADE STREET MARKETS
A couple of the small shops in Jade St. Basically it’s a street of small shops selling jade & tourist nick nacks. Many of the jade and jewellery sellers are Burmese.
GALANBA MARKET
This market is very large with a wide range of stalls inside it. It is Galanba, a small town south of Jinghong.
MENGHUN MARKETS
This was taken at Menghun, about 11/2 hours by mini bus west from Jinghong. It has a market each Sunday and a few ethnic women visit to sell items of clothing. I was mobbed as soon as I appeared as the only other couple of foreigners I saw were leaving as I arrived & they didn’t look the kind to buy textiles. I did have to help the women out a bit. Enough to give me a luggage problem.
Another one in colourful skirt and bag.
Looks like 3 generations and a different ethnic group from the previous 2 people.
More women and from yet different ethnic group.
These women caught the same bus as me. While we were waitint for it to leave one went & bought 2 ice creams for the kids & offered one to me. They got off at a very pretty area somewhere along the road.
Young monk riding a motor bike at Menghun Markets. Saw lots of young monks riding motor bikes and a couple smoking. That part of China has many buddist temples and boys enter a monastry at a young age.
Some of the fast food available in the market.
basket of ducklings
bags of lentils, chilis etc
Women fron different ethnic groups selling their produce.
