You won’t find the wholesale market in any of the tourist guidebooks. But because of a change in the plane schedule we ended up with an extra day in Yangon, and we had seen everything on our itinerary. Not to fear. By the time the extra day came around, we’d traveled for almost a week with our intrepid guide Zaw, and he knew very well what we liked. And markets were high on that list. So here is another slice of ordinary life in Myanmar.

This is the market where vendors (farmers, mostly, I suspect) from all over the region come to sell their produce to the smaller curbside vendors you can see everywhere in the city.

They come in all kinds of conveyances and carry their wares into the market any way they can.

And they sell all sorts of produce.

I found this banana lady particularly remarkable. Well, not the lady herself, but rather the stunning variety of bananas she offered for sale. Wish we could get some of those here!

It must be a long day for the wholesalers. The market opens early, and they have to set out from places who-knows-how-distant to get there and set up. And then the whole exhausting day selling to customers. Sometimes a person just needs a break.