animal market

It doesn't happen to often, so today is one of those special days when I, Erlend, write a blog post.

The main reason that I'm writing today, is that I went to the animal market and Anne didn't come because... there were a few reasons, but we are going back there soon (I hope) and then I'm definitely bringing her. 

This is probably not going to be to surprising, but at the animal market they sell animals... doh.. hehe.

You can find alot of other things too - like stickers. The people in this country love stickers. They put them on their helmets, bikes, cars and so on.

Well, back to the animals:

 Having pet birds is very common. People here love them. Sometimes you even hear people have bird song as the ring tone on their cell phones.

 Even little chickens support Aafk here. (its a football team whose color is orange.)

This guy was selling knives and machetes. Mostly useful tools, but he also had some futuristic looking swords with flash lights on them

 Sheep for sale.

 A huge cow. At least compared to the guy selling it. 

There is a festival coming up, where cows and goats are slaughtered, so a lot of people are in the market to buy some right now.

And then there was this guy... He had a bag full of cobra snakes. I thought he was selling snake meat, but that turned out to be just a side product. What he was selling was a drink.

First he pored a deciliter of honey into a cup. Then he got a cobra out, shopped the head of, and squeezed all the blood into the cup with the honey.

Then he skinned the snake, took the guts out, cut of the heart and what looked like a liver, and added it to the cup. 

Then he proceeded to snap the spine of the snake in many places, and pulling out parts of the spinal cord. That also went into the cup. 

One of these drinks was five times more expensive than all the meat from a whole snake. 

Guys were lining up to buy the stuff, so it seems honey snake drink is good...?

After a long day of looking at animals we went to a place to eat. This is the view from the road there.

The cafe was on stilts in a pond full of fish. When we threw our left over rice in the pond, so many fish came rushing trying to get some of it that a couple of them were completely out of the water, just lying on top of all the other ones. 

And they tasted good too. We ate a few. They were grilled. It was good. Very good. Yum.