no-content banner image

September 2015: The Grand Bazaar

15th Century Market; 21st Century Tourist Attraction

I Could Live Here: Home        Album: List    << Prev Image | The Grand Bazaar | Next Image >>
Magnify the image

An entrance to the Grand Bazaar. It was built in the 1400's.

We expected something like the market in Fez or Seoul -- a crazy, madcap, aggressive, confusing mess that only insiders can really decipher. This place was organized, polite, with ample directional and information signs and bathrooms. It was also almost entirely devoted to selling things to tourists, as befits the world's most visited tourist attraction.

We were, I must admit, both comfortable and disappointed. Okay, I was comforted; Monica was disappointed.

 

© Hughes Family 2015