A visit to the 'Made in Saligao' market.......

There is this very captivating location that you would have come across if you happen to visit Saligao specially on a Tuesday, and that is the 'Made in Saligao' market which is held somewhere in the interior part of the village after you have crossed the famous 'Saligao Road'. That was where my mom, my sister and I decided to head to spend a part of evening, exploring the place as we have never come across it earlier.

As our rickshaw which had picked us up to take us there finally reached the location, we saw a big crowd that had gathered there and we felt that surely there must be something really going on over there, and as we proceeded to enter the market, we saw a lot of really nice stalls with people selling a whole lot of items ranging from our very own popular dishes of sorpotel, a fried king-fish preparation with masala which we too as Goans prepare, besides a lot of handicrafts on display done by the locals of the village including some really nice handmade woolen bags and crochet earrings, all of which were beautifully displayed for the people to buy. There was one stall I would really like to make a mention of that was actually selling soaps which were home-crafted or rather homemade which was really nice and also there was another stall where there were women selling vases with a beautiful painting embossed on them each. What's more, there was even a barbecue station, where the man over there was busy grilling fish along with the different colors of capsicum to enlighten all the barbecue lovers and finally inside the Saligao Institute (which was also a part of the market), there were some really nice cushion covers too once again made by the locals which were kept to be sold as well as whole range of books for all the book-lovers out there. There was even a certain spot kept for the oldies who you could see were busy in their own world of playing cards as a pastime to the usual discussions that they would possibly be having of their day-to-day lives.

What really gave the market it's true uniqueness was the really melodious reggae tunes dating back to the late 90s in a way to preserve the spirit of the partially Westernized Goan culture with tunes from popular icons such as Bob Marley being sung and played to keep the happiness and cheer going as people visit the market in search of the items they desire buying.

To sum up, it was a really nice experience to be visiting the 'Made in Saligao' market which you could say is a weekly market, as I have never visited a similar one before and it has really left me and my mom and my sister with great memories to cherish of our visit!!!!!

PS: Below are some really nice pictures and videos I had captured of the 'Made in Saligao' market. Please do take note of specially the one where the menu with the items to be sold was displayed as it had a mention of an Arabic food item of 'hummus' mentioned on it which was really fascinating.