Potters' Square in Bhaktapur, Nepal is filled with pots, incense-burners, oil lamps and artisans trying to sell you all of the above. This old woman was the exception, content as she was to bask in the evening sun next to her merchandise.
the sights, sounds and smells of the market nourish body and soul.
The house Claude Monet lived and worked is a place art lovers often choose as an art tourism destination. And certainly want to buy something to remember the trip.
some organic free range eggs from the Borough Market, London.
Art tourists come to Chicago to visit the city's best-known museum, the renowned Art Institute. But the architecture tourists have their own gallery.
Bac Ha Market Vietnam. An Ethnic market filled with everything Vietnamese, including dogs; not for pets, but for dinner.
One of the many vendors @ The Borough Market.
In the claustrophobically crowded Guatemalan market of San Francisco el Alto, my eye was caught by a cage and its contents: pretty little pastel parakeets. Their job is forecast the future, selecting fortunes with their tiny beaks.
Flower H'mong woman returning from market with her purchases.
Behind the Warfield in San Francisco, after a Michael Franti & Spearhead concert. With all of the music going on inside, people forget to look at their surroundings.