One Friday we took a bus to San Fransisco el Alto, a village
high in the mountains.
Every Friday they host a collosal market, the largest in Guatemala.
The entire mountainside is packed with people.
This market is a dazzling kaleidoscope of sights and sounds. The crush of people was unbelievable. In places there was barely room to walk. Vendors were EVERYWHERE on that mountainside village.
They sold everything - puppies and kittens, every imaginable kind of fowl,
pots, pans, accordians, drums, machetes, sewing machines, pigs, sheep, cows,
burros, blouses, tortillas, lamps, dressers, cottons, wools, eggs, fruit, vegetables,
it just went on and on.
It was truly an astounding experience!!