Our Bucket List ~ Asia Here we Come! : Shopping at Parapet Saturday Market & More!

Saturday Morning~

We woke up refreshed and sat on the balcony and Berend came to tell us if we needed to do any shopping at all the best place was to go to Parapet to the Saturday market...and we thought that was a great idea...Thanks Berend! Just then we saw the ferry coming towards the pier and so we grabbed our stuff and raced down to the pier....just in time!

Wow...so nice and cool on the boat...feels so refreshing...the soft wind blows so' pleasantly on this Saturday morning!

People got off and a other ferry boat was filling up already with people, scooters and goods!

Gosh we experienced a Saturday market that was so busy...people from all the villages that came from afar to sell and buy their goods~

Families, animals, children, veggies, pigs, chickens, ducks...it was for sale!

People coming from all over the place...I think the island too to buy their needed goods. Many people grow their own vegetables but there are many others staples needed for the week.

Dried fish - possibly anchovies?

Fresh Mango's so good and banana's a different type then we are use to.

Some kind of egg roll and other things I did not
recognize...sometimes better not to know! HA!

Look here closely...do you see all the cars lined up and coming in? A long line of pick-up cars full of women, children and all coming into town to the market to buy their goods.

It was so busy here and it is hard to believe that people have to go through this every week to get their staples!!!!

Do you see the car full of people and loaded up on the top too? (double click on the picture for a better look!) The car was not full yet of passengers - Nick said...so they will only leave with it is jam packed...oh I would be so claustrophobic in there! Get me out of there...now! No thankfully I did not have to get in there...but still - if you have to!

Look at this hanging on the back of the truck???? Can you see what I saw??????? Not sure if you really want to see this...but I just couldn't believe it and had to take a picture of it.............because it was moving in the bags.................

Yes two little piglet's bought at the market and most likely going to be fattened up on the farm! They were squirming in the bag!

I looked at it for quite a while...and I do think they will make it home to the farms...just sad hanging on the back like that!

Vonna....I thought of you!!!!!!!!!

Well we headed home with our market bought goods and it was again such a pretty view out there!

Such a serene place to live...Lake Toba!

Yes this was a Muslim temple in the downtown area. It seems they have a stainless steel dome..doesn't it?

Back on the ferry boat we had some tourists that we began to chat with from Germany...they too had spent the afternoon at the market!

Sven & Brigitte and sister Tina with husband Stephan...we had a wonderful talk...45 min long and it was great to hear all about what they were doing! the two in the middle Tina & Stephan had also sold their house and furniture and are also traveling for a year! They thought it was the greatest to do...so they could so relate with us! They were in their early 50's!

Sven and Brigitte had also been traveling since May...and they left Germany to Moscow and then took the Trans Siberian Railroad of 8000 miles Trans-Siberian_Railway from Moscow to Siberia and into Mongolia / China...and said it was a most adventurous trip ever! Then to China, Laos, Vietnam...Thailand to Malaysia and here to Indonesia...my oh my what interesting people we come across...so much fun!!!! We hope to meet up with them again...they were staying at the Toba Inn the German Bakery/hotel of course!

Well we unloaded our groceries and decided to make some homemade home grown lunch!

Nick went out with his pocket knife and cut some fresh veggies out of the garden....yum!