Monday, October 21, 2024
This morning our luggage had to be out by 8:45 to be loaded on the buses. We left at 9:00 to stop at the post office.
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The Bhutan post office is unique in that they will
use your photo and create stamps for you |
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We were not prepared with a photo, so had one taken
outside the post office; for about $4.50, we received
a dozen stamps, but used only one |
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This was the letter box where we
deposited our single postcard |
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| Next we stopped at the biggest farmers' market in Bhutan |
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| Red and green chilies |
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It was a little disappointing to see prepacked produce
in plastic bags; the rings on the right are from bitter melon |
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| Red onions, tomatoes, gourds, cabbages |
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| Ginger and garlic, cucumbers |
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| Soft-bite yak cheese |
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| Dried crocker fish |
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| Bottle gourds and carrots |
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| Fruits |
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| Dried yak cheese |
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| Fresh yak cheese rounds, yak butter maybe, eggs |
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| Butcher shop cabinet with fatty pork strips (KSS) |
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| Dried cow skin |
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| Sausages |
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| Restaurant in the food court (KSS) |
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| Example of food that is available (KSS) |
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| Seating in the food court |
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| Asian eggplants |
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| Honey and spices |
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| Different types of rice |
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| Incense |
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| Cubes of camphor are now pre-wrapped |
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| Dried persimmon slices |
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| Yak butter lamp wicks |
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Spices, but why was she mixing them
in the green bag? |
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| Saffron |
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| Ground chilies |
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| Not dried seaweed, but dried riverweed |
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| Winnowing grain? |
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| Bitter melon, okra, broccoli |
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| Digital scale |
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| Verbena bonariensis/Purpletop Vervain |
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