Sunday, January 20, 2008

The Anjuna market.

Anjuna, later the same day. The imfamous Arjuna flea market has obviously been taken over by the Kashmiris nowadays. I remember the days when only hippies and alternatives tried to sell their hand made ware at this markets. Now the beach is parked up and down with vans, Kashmiri people unloading carpet after carpet. Locals selling fruit and fish, It`s all pretty chaotic with tour busses in their hunderts, their drivers desperately trying to find a free parking space. Unloading thousands of western tourists, fat, ugly and rowdy, loaded with withexpensive camara- and video gear. Their favourite pasttime...gawking at all what is going on, pointing their camaras and videos at all and everything while drinking the not-so-cheap-anymore Goa beer. I watch it all wondering at what has happened to the old Shanty-Shanty Anjuna flea market with its easy does it hippies and chilam smokers from times past.

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