Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is pets and farm animals.
Daraw
Friendly Friday: Markets
Sandy’s Friendly Friday Photo Challenge topic this week is markets.
I love outdoor markets – we have a farmers’ market near us on Sundays which runs from June to October. Most of the farmers are from Michigan or southern Illinois. Of course, the items change with the seasons. This is a local farmers’ market in October.
It is fun and interesting to visit markets in other countries – both outdoor farmers’ markets and regular supermarkets. Following are market scenes I took on my recent travels.
Quebec City, Canada in October
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Aswan spice market, Egypt, in January
Colorful stall
Rishon le Tsiyon, Israel – these photos were taken at an (indoor) supermarket, in January
Tel Aviv, Israel – another supermarket, in January
Vienna, Austria – we took a special tour to this large outdoor market, called Naschmarkt, which sold a lot of other things besides food! In July
Not all markets sell food…
Here is the Daraw animal market in Daraw, Egypt, in January.
Plenty of people watching too! 
The camel handlers tie up one of the camels’ legs so they won’t run away. 
They claim this does not hurt the camels. 
Not just animals are for sale. 
One needs other equipment for the animals. 
Back there is where slaughtered animals hung – I did not go near! 
The cattle looked emaciated. 
FFPC: Everybody’s Going Somewhere
CFFC: Choose Your Topic from a Photo
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is in a series where she posts a photo and you choose what topic you wish to post based on her photo. Here is her photo this week:
Here are Cee’s suggestions: floats, things hanging on trees, rope, fishing items, grass, green, orange, white, blue, numbers, bare branches, or come up with your own topic.
– actually these are fake trees at Bottle Tree Ranch in California.
This real tree has things hanging on it, but it looks like something natural to the tree.
Rope
Floaters/fishing equipment
L-APC: Organized Chaos in Egypt
When I saw that Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #88 had the theme of chaos, I immediately thought of Egypt…
Egyptian roads are chaotic. Jokingly – but not really – locals will describe to you the beliefs of Egyptian drivers: Speed limits are just suggestions. Lines on the roads are merely for decoration (really, no one pays much attention to them – drivers make a 3-lane road into a 5- or 6-lane road!). Don’t use your headlights at night because you will inconvenience drivers coming in the other direction.
Cairo is a very large, chaotic and polluted city.
This is two-way traffic! If there is a traffic jam, motorcyclists will weave in and out between the lanes of cars.
Roof level chaos
While on our Nile River cruise, we stopped in the town of Daraw to visit their animal market. Getting there took a lot longer than it should have because we were stopped by a very slow train. Tuk-tuk, auto, and foot traffic piled up behind us.
Finally, we made it to the market, where there was plenty of chaos! The market teemed with hundreds of animals and the smell was very…well, exactly what you would expect!
Perhaps it was really organized chaos – sheep and goats were in one area, camels in another, etc. Somewhere in the back where those green tents are, animals were being butchered on the spot!
Wanderlust & Wonderment 