Saturday, September 24, 2011

Craft Fairs

Dear mom, thanks for somehow instilling a sixth sense in me to find craft fairs no matter where I am. Fortunate for you, the one I found today doesn't have candles, so there's room for international expansion!

So here's the deal: in the park across the street and down a block from my house, every weekend there is this huge craft fair/artesian market where mostly indigenous people sell handmade paintings and very touristy things like jewelry, knitted alpaca things, souvenirs, etc. It's actually a really cool park and a great setting for something like this. The booths and painting displays are set up along the perimeter and main circle of the park, and inside the circle of green tents there are tons of jungle gyms, people selling fruit and ice cream, kids on bikes, people playing soccer in the grass. It's really chévere.


This is a picture of the painting displays set up along the side of the street. One of the hundreds of vendors selling pretty similar paintings.



A view of the "inner vendors" and their green tents under the awnings. It's rude to take pictures of people and their stuff, so this is poor quality because I managed to sneak a peek with my camera. Oops!


Some guy watches his kid go on the zipline in the jungle gym area. Cute.




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