By Jaive Smare
Source: www.myamazingparadise.com
Link: http://www.myamazingparadise.com/?p=273&lang=en-us
If you ever get to Arawa, the market in the dead center of town is the first place you should go to have a ‘taste’ of Bougainville.
Big bunches of banana that you would buy for K5 ot K10 in Port Moresby are 50t!!!!! Awesome!!!!! Sweet potatoes, sweet Bougainville taro’s, ‘choko’ greens, beans and other leafy vegetables, smoked fish and jungle protein, so much food here.
And the bettlenut, giant Bougainville bettlenut to make any buai addict feel like they are in Buai heaven!!
There are cooked items on sale as well such as smoked fish, women selling iceblock and scones.
Bougainville Island is such a rich and fertile place with volcanic soil, very tropical climate and year round rainfall that nourishes everything that grows here (even the people!)
This fertility is reflected by the amount and variety of food sold at the market.
The sellers of the market come from mainly the Kieta, Arawa and Buin areas to sell their produce here.
It’s a bustling market full of activity and noise.
Solomon Island seafarers are also sellers in the market, crossing over the border to sell their necklaces because the PNG currency is much stronger than the Solomon Islands currency.
These are some pics, not that good but i hope you enjoy them and share your comments below please.
Source: www.myamazingparadise.com
Link: http://www.myamazingparadise.com/?p=273&lang=en-us
If you ever get to Arawa, the market in the dead center of town is the first place you should go to have a ‘taste’ of Bougainville.
Big bunches of banana that you would buy for K5 ot K10 in Port Moresby are 50t!!!!! Awesome!!!!! Sweet potatoes, sweet Bougainville taro’s, ‘choko’ greens, beans and other leafy vegetables, smoked fish and jungle protein, so much food here.
And the bettlenut, giant Bougainville bettlenut to make any buai addict feel like they are in Buai heaven!!
There are cooked items on sale as well such as smoked fish, women selling iceblock and scones.
Bougainville Island is such a rich and fertile place with volcanic soil, very tropical climate and year round rainfall that nourishes everything that grows here (even the people!)
This fertility is reflected by the amount and variety of food sold at the market.
The sellers of the market come from mainly the Kieta, Arawa and Buin areas to sell their produce here.
It’s a bustling market full of activity and noise.
Solomon Island seafarers are also sellers in the market, crossing over the border to sell their necklaces because the PNG currency is much stronger than the Solomon Islands currency.
These are some pics, not that good but i hope you enjoy them and share your comments below please.
- Bougainville Veges!!
- Buai!! … and yes, there are light skinned Bougainvilleans!
- Buai!! More Buai!!
- Sweet Potato!! Important stable food here
- Say Cheese!! What? No Cheese?…ohh well
- Lime in Bamboo Holders
- Happy iceblock sellers
- Buai! Look how big they are!!
- More sweet potato in baskets
- Smoked fish with Tapiok/Taro cakes
- More Food & Sellers
- Solomon Islanders with their necklaces for sale. Better currency in PNG.
- Solomon Island necklaces
- Vegetarians Paradise…look at those peanuts
- Bougainville Baskets for Sale
- Goodbye!
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and an interesting way they sell their kaukau. Just out of curiosity how much is 1 basket of kaukau and could you buy small baskets of kaukau?