The market in Mysore is a wonderful place - so much produce, intended for local people, not tourists.
Colourful dyes for Holi (the festival of colours) with joss sticks, and little clay oil burners
and the flower garland sellers - marigolds and jasmine flowers are knotted onto a long thread and sold by the cubit.
Lovely colours and textures
Each stall holder seemed to specialise in certain things - root veg, onions and tomatoes; squash, cabbage and cauliflower; peas in a big pile on the floor
Chilis and spices; mini aubergines
and red carrots.
These weird things are jack fruit apparently
Bananas: the green ones are ripe, just a different variety; and the purple flowers can also be eaten fried
Tobacco leaves - chewed on their own or with betel nut.
Metal items - these are water pots, but also tiffin cans and cooking pots, and loads of brass. And loads of stalls selling colourful plastic items and bangles - forgot to photograph those!
Colourful dyes for Holi (the festival of colours) with joss sticks, and little clay oil burners
and the flower garland sellers - marigolds and jasmine flowers are knotted onto a long thread and sold by the cubit.
All in all a feast for the senses, all behind these ancient dilapidated walls.
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