Shop till you drop

Before coming here, I had heard there wouldn't be many touristy things to spend money on.  And outside of buying clothes, that is probably correct.  The women in our group have been buying fabric and getting different outfits made.  However, I have had a hard time finding clothes that fit here.  In Bangladesh size I would be an XXXL and it is hard to find that size.  I have purchased a couple of lungi's which are the common bottoms of most men on the street or out in the country (I will have to get a photo taken with mine on) and that has been it.

But what is really exiciting for me is going to the market to see what is for sale....and there are many different things for sale but most revolve around food -  meat or veggie or fruit or salted meat or candy. The last night in Rangpur, I went to a night market for a few minutes to check out what was for sale.

Fresh fruit and a lot of it is imported as fruit isn't a common crop here.

Different seeds to buy for next season's crop.

Most of the above shobji (vegetables) are grown locally.  Yard long bean, brinjal, bitter gourd are a few that I have eaten here and are in the photo.

Fish is the main protein source and this market has a large fish market component - since it was end of day, there weren't many fish left.

But the dried fish guy had plenty of selection and was happy to have it his picture taken.  You can imagine the different smells in the market!

Now that I am in Dhaka, and it is my last weekend, I hope to make it to another market to take some more pictures of what is for sale.  But it will have to be day market pictures as there is certainly a different feel to Dhaka back markets!