What a beautiful, lively market place. You can find anything from good fresh fruits, vegetables, bread, cakes, cookies, meat, eggs and cheese to clothes and hygiene and house cleaning products. Prices are good, but make sure to query around a few stalls to get the best deal. There is not a lot of margin to bargain, but asking with a smile never hurts. Also on the third floor there are local restaurants, mostly with the same offers and prices on the menu. Notice that each has the name of the female cook! Please do try “sopa de maní” (peanut soup), BOB5 and mondongo (a local dish with corn, pork meat and potatoes), BOB15. There is also the menu for BOB12, including soup and a main dish. It gets really busy until 1pm. Slows down its pace between 1 and 5pm and gets the hassle again by the end of the afternoon. Around 6pm there is bread coming from a nearby village, for which...
Read moreA local market with loads of products to sell and the food court upstairs - you could buy there meats, cheese, artesanal yoghurt, cakes and lots of groceries. There were also stand with fruits and veggies that looked really good.
Food court consists of many kiosks with traditional dishes but they are all the same so doesn’t really matter which one you choose. There are also breakfast and snack options (api, gelatines). Breakfast and snack options close quite fast so in the afternoon only dinner can be served. Food is good and very cheap though (lunch is 10-12 BOB)
Outside there are some stalls with juices and drinks but again, they are the same :)
One star less for being cheated when buying fruits and being given a gringo price even though we knew it was way too much. But the seller of course did not want to...
Read moreYou can find everything! But I’m giving 5 stars for fruits and veggies. The variety is vast, ladies are very nice, they offer you to try a banana or some other fruit before you buy more. I found some fruits I never knew existed (like avocado that looks like cucumber). And you can always negotiate! For food, they do have food court upstairs but there are a lot of vendors just outside on the streets with very delicious and inexpensive food as well. However, just for the sake of experience, try it at least once or just go...
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