Marketplace

The hustling at the marketplace can be very competitive.



An older lady selling fresh produce at the marketplace.

 
The Vietnamese marketplace is an intense experience for your senses.  The visuals, the smells, and the sounds really gives you a glimpse of what the human universe would be if you were to compress it.  The smell of fresh fruit mixed with the smells of roasting soups, moms and daughters haggling over prices, the cordial butcher, the wise herbsman, the beautiful flowershop girl, and the jaded greeting card seller all provide an array of the different plights of human kind.