The panama canal fruit market

Gwyn and I went to the mother of all fruit markets this afternoon - El Mercado de Abastos. All fruit passes through this huge warehouse center where later it is distributed to local markets, local restaurants and street side vendors. You name it, it was there: cilantro, mint, apples from Washington state, Japanese pears, watermelons, mango's (i bought 4 beautiful mango's for 8 pesos which is about 70 cents). It was definitely olfactory overload (in a good way). There were blocks and blocks selling mango, mint, cilantro, pears, strawberry's, all types of bananas and a bunch of other fruit which I didn't know existed. We walked around for a good hour, then decided the heat was just too much to take. It's better to be indoors blogging in front of the fan.