This is the market of the local community of Urubamba. The variëty of local products is actually amazing. The variety of fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs, biological products, animal based products and fish is astonishing. At 4am the first locals arrive with the products they hope to sell that day and in the evening around 8pm a last concierge leaves and closes up. In this local market you one would not only find 60 families selling their products, but also quite some families serve their familiar menu's made oit of their own harvested crops or from the crops of neightbours, and also some workshops that offer sewing or textiles or local art or typical peruvian things like incenses or leather bags. For those who are interrested in what Urubamba has to offer, this market is a...
Read moreThe mercado is in the city center close to the plaza the arms a huge place with three floors. The first floor is for fruit and vegetables meat and fish. The second floor is all kind of closing and taylors and the third floor is for natural juices. You can find almost any fruit or vegetable very cheap, the atmosphere is nice everybody is calm and the building is covered with roof. Next to the market there is a place where you can find cheap food called "menu", that includes two dishes the first one usually is a kind of a soup and the second one is fish or chicken alongside with...
Read moreThis place has just about everything you need. It has restaurants on the 3rd floor (including two vegan), seamstresses, shore repair, sundries, plasticarias, clothing, food grown everywhere in the Valley and the jungle, picked fresh and ripe. You can get herbs, nuts, spices, olives, coca, llipta, mapacho, maple syrup, chicha, cocoa, coconut milk, every kind of bean and grain you can think of, and at least 40 different kinds of potatoes. It's open every day,...
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