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We continued our adventurous morning tradition this morning. Evan is a Canadian/American physical therapist that has been living here for 6 years and she offered to take us with her to the vegetable market. We hadn't walked down to Banepa so we enjoyed seeing the neighborhood and all of the people headed to work along the path.  All of the houses here have shops or barns on the ground floor.  The upper stories are houses for members of the family.  It is common to have unfinished floors that will be finished when each child gets married.


We started out at 6:30am since most of the good stuff gets loaded up to take to Kathmandu.  Evan suggested that if we had gone even earlier we would have had better selection.  Each stall had their wares laying out on towels or blankets on the ground.

Each shop insisted that we buy at least 1 kilogram which is a lot of garlic and onions. In the end we got potatoes, garlic, onions, spinach (or similar) and apples for a couple dollars. Hauling the 5 kilograms of potatoes up the long hill to the hospital was my job.