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Getting ready for shopping at the market

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Tucked away in the mountainous countryside of Western Honduras, Belén Gualcho hosts an important weekly market on Sunday morning.
Once in Belén Gualcho, I walked around the village streets formed by enormous stones and pieces of rock, strewn over the earth in completely random order, clearly not intended for cars or bicycles. Belén Gualcho has an attractive colonial church, for a change not on the central park, but higher above the village centre. There is no other way, the town is too hilly to accomodate both cathedral and park at the same spot. Climbing a little above the church gave me a great view over the the valley, the mountains, the village and the church itself. The sun set early behind the mountains, and as always in Honduras, I slept very early. Of course the market starts very early as well. At 4, I was awakened by the sounds of merchants waking up, and getting themselves and their goods ready for sale. I went a little later, and the small square, so quiet and empty the day before, had turned into a busy place, people haggling, gesturing, talking, laughing, weighing, paying, putting goods into their bags, shouting to try draw people's attention to the wares for sale.
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