Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Souk Al-Mubarakiya

Our trip to Souk Al-Mubarakiya, an old Kuwaiti market full of almost everything you might wish to buy - from the Kuwaiti equivalent of dollar stores, The 100 Fils Shop, to keepsakes, treasures, fish, meat and more. (btw - Souk means market or bazaar)

When we first entered the souk we passed stalls full of herbs…




and spices.



Colorfully displayed prayer rugs:



Entering the meat market…




A fascinating but sometimes too eye-opening experience for me. Bobby was so excited – his close-up pictures (below here - scroll FAST to miss them - for the faint of tummy) are pretty  graphic. (I took this one from a distance!) Of course, it's nice that they actually use all the parts of the animal (this is sheep). 







The last part of the souk we visited – so many products it was hard to even focus your eyes. Adele was fascinated watching from our arms, as always, happy the whole time. 





Well, there was so MUCH to see!

2 comments:

  1. They really are lovely. And smell so good! We went back a couple of days ago and I saw huge bags of herbs, too. There is so much at a place like the souk it takes a while to make sense of it all. I could spend days there.

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