3744 x 5616 px | 31,7 x 47,5 cm | 12,5 x 18,7 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
25 agosto 2009
Ubicazione:
In a market, Cusco, Cuzco, Titicaca Lake, Machu Picchu Altiplano Andes Peru, South America
Altre informazioni:
The massive market in Cusco is inside a warehouse style building and is strangely organized and thought out – strange indeed. The crowd consists of a local/gringo blend as well as tourists pointing SLR cameras and trying to get unconcerned, toothless old ladies to look up. The aromatic air smells like over-ripened fruit, frying oil, and mildewed cloth. There is a sullen murmur of business taking place, the growl of blenders making fruit smoothies, and flickering fluorescent lights are softened by daylight filtering in through high windows. Even stranger than the tour groups in their socks and multi-strap sandals, the prices have remained unaffected by the presence of so many cash throwing gringos. Unlike places like the floating market in Thailand, these people actually haven’t come together to gouge idiot tourists (yet). If you are wisely staying in a hostel with a kitchen, this is a very good thing. We took turns in the hostel preparing easy but super-healthy pasta and vegetable dishes which cost a grand total of $5 worth of ingredients to feed 6+ people.
