Paloquemao--and fruits!
Jun. 17th, 2018 10:49 pmWhile we were in Bogotá, we went to Paloquemao, a giant produce-and-other-things market. It's very popular as a tourist destination with colombianos as well as foreigners--one night when we turned on the TV, they were visiting there.
We went there, though, because it was one of the locations that La Niña was shot. The parents of Victor, one of the young medical students in the show, work there.
Apparently the way most people get to Paloquemao is to take a taxi or a bus, but we walked. And let me tell you, people who go by taxi or bus miss passing through the restaurant-supply district of Bogotá, where there's shopfront after shopfront filled with coffee makers or refrigerators or empty display shelves. A display of display shelves. And after that, the prostitute district. I've probably crossed paths with prostitutes in my life without realizing it, and lots of the women I've worked with at the jail have been sex workers at one time or another, but I've never had the experience of walking by barely clad women just, y'know, hanging around, literally, on street corners (and lining up all down the side streets), just. Waiting. So that was interesting.
But then at last we were at Paloquemao, where you can see beautiful huge displays of fruit like **this**
DO YOU SEE THE MANGOSTEENS FRONT AND CENTER?? DO YOU? I have wanted to taste a mangosteen since![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
intertribal wrote about them years ago. I thought I might get a chance in East Timor, but no. Nor in Florida. But that day in Paloquemao? YES.
It was every bit as delicious as I had hoped. I bought a pound, and we ate them during the rest of our stay.
( more photos and chatting )
We went there, though, because it was one of the locations that La Niña was shot. The parents of Victor, one of the young medical students in the show, work there.
Apparently the way most people get to Paloquemao is to take a taxi or a bus, but we walked. And let me tell you, people who go by taxi or bus miss passing through the restaurant-supply district of Bogotá, where there's shopfront after shopfront filled with coffee makers or refrigerators or empty display shelves. A display of display shelves. And after that, the prostitute district. I've probably crossed paths with prostitutes in my life without realizing it, and lots of the women I've worked with at the jail have been sex workers at one time or another, but I've never had the experience of walking by barely clad women just, y'know, hanging around, literally, on street corners (and lining up all down the side streets), just. Waiting. So that was interesting.
But then at last we were at Paloquemao, where you can see beautiful huge displays of fruit like **this**
DO YOU SEE THE MANGOSTEENS FRONT AND CENTER?? DO YOU? I have wanted to taste a mangosteen since
intertribal wrote about them years ago. I thought I might get a chance in East Timor, but no. Nor in Florida. But that day in Paloquemao? YES. It was every bit as delicious as I had hoped. I bought a pound, and we ate them during the rest of our stay.
( more photos and chatting )
