Market Day

One Saturday Neil and I went with an couple who were living in Guatemala to see the main
market called, La Terminal. This is the place where all of the farmers bring their produce to be sold in large quantities for stores. The colors were wonderful! There would be almost a whole block of people selling just tomatoes---then almost a block of just bananas---and so on.


These roma tomatoes are the main type that are grown in Guatemala. There were boxes and
boxes of them in La Terminal.


We saw these beautiful, yellow sweet bell peppers along with some red and orange ones too.
We bought a few to take home. You had to buy some portions from the vendors on the street part of the market. The vendors on the inside part of the market only sold in very large quantities.

These huge baskets held several different varities of little hot peppers. I don't think I would like to find out just how hot they were! But they were really a beautiful green color! We also found
herbs and spices set out like this in these big baskets.

On the inside part of the market (in one of the blocks) there were vendors who sold all sorts of meat. Whatever kind of meat, or part of the meat you wanted, they would get it for you. We also found crabs, lobster, shrimp (tons of shrimp!) and many different kinds of fish.

This is one of the street stalls with different kinds of vegetables---lettuce, corn, onions, and these
little green squash (I don't know their name). They all looked good enough to eat! One thing,
though, about going to La Terminal---you need to go with a Guatemalan. It isn't a very safe
place to go. We were glad to have our Guatemalan friends with us. It was a great experience.