A Photo Essay on Markets in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East and South America
Bac Ha Sunday Market, North Vietnam
No matter where I travel, I immensely enjoy visiting markets. Many of them, especially in Africa & in Asia, but also in the Middle East & in South America, are an assault on your senses: colorful and at times disorientating, aromatic or even intoxicating, vibrant and eventually hectic places… But this is where “the real life” can be found, so different from touristic highlights (though some markets have turned extremely popular in the last years, also amongst tour groups…)
Here you find a selection of 40 pictures I took at markets in Asia (China, Myanmar, Vietnam & India), in Africa (Ethiopia & Senegal), in the Middle-East (Oman) & in South America (Colombia & Bolivia).
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- Bac Ha Sunday Market, North Vietnam
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- Bac Ha Sunday Market, North Vietnam
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- Luong Phin Sunday Market, Bac Ha, North Vietnam
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- Omani Woman at the Cattle Market in Nizwa on Friday Morning, Sultanat of Oman, Arabic Peninsula
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- Cattle Market in Nizwa on Friday Morning, Sultanat of Oman, Arabic Peninsula
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- Omani Woman at the Cattle Market in Nizwa on Friday Morning, Sultanat of Oman, Arabic Peninsula
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- Daily Market in Harar, Ethiopia
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- Daily Market in Harar, Ethiopia
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- Daily Market in Harar, Ethiopia
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- Traditional “Indigenous” Sunday Market in Tarabuco, Bolivia, South America
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- Traditional “Indigenous” Sunday Market in Tarabuco, Bolivia, South America
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- Traditional “Indigenous” Sunday Market in Tarabuco, Bolivia, South America
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- Woman at the 5-Day Market on Inle Lake, Myanmar – The five villages on the shore of Lake Inle take turns, so there is actually a market each day of the week.
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- Woman smoking at the 5-Day Market on Inle Lake, Myanmar – The five villages on the shore of Lake Inle take turns, so there is actually a market each day of the week.
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- Young girl at the 5-Day Market on Inle Lake, Myanmar – The five villages on the shore of Lake Inle take turns, so there is actually a market each day of the week.
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- Monk on a bicycle at the 5-Day Market on Inle Lake, Myanmar – The five villages on the shore of Lake Inle take turns, so there is actually a market each day of the week.
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- Man smoking a pipe at the 5-Day Market on Inle Lake, Myanmar – The five villages on the shore of Lake Inle take turns, so there is actually a market each day of the week.
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- Shasheme Market, Omo Valley, South Ethiopia, Africa
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- Hamer People at the Market in Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, South Ethiopia, Africa
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- Blue skirts, thin hand-woven ponchos and a bowler hat, Guambiano Indigenous Market, Silvia, near Popayan, Cauca, Colombia, South America
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- Blue skirts, thin hand-woven ponchos and a bowler hat, Guambiano Indigenous Market, Silvia, near Popayan, Cauca, Colombia, South America
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- Market at a small Hani village near the Rice Terrasses of Yuanyang, Yunnan, China
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- Market at a small Hani village near the Rice Terrasses of Yuanyang, Yunnan, China
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- Woman at the Rice Terrasses of Yuanyang (here in Duoyishu), Yunnan, China
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- Market at a small Hani village near the Rice Terrasses of Yuanyang, Yunnan, China
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- Market in Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa
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- Children Posing for the Picture, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa
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- Women at the market in the streets of Pushkar, Rajsthan, India
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- Women at the market in the streets of Pushkar, Rajsthan, India
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- Women at the market in the streets of Pushkar, Rajsthan, India
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- “Holy Man” in the streets of Pushkar, Rajsthan, India
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- Market day in Inza, Tierradentro, Cauca, Colombia, South America
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- Market day in Inza, with full Chiva buses, old Dodge buses, Tierradentro, Cauca, Colombia, South America
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- Women in the streets of Jaipur, the Pink City, Rajasthan, India
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- One of the many shops in the Bazaars of Jaipur, the Pink City, Rajasthan, India
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- Heavily loaded bike, in the streets of Jaipur, the Pink City, Rajasthan, India
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- Returning home from the market!
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- A young Talibé in the streets of Segou, Mali
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- The “Anciens” sitting in the shade and watching life go by …
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