- Les Marchés
de Niamey et de ses alentours
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- Big
Market in Niamey
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- Recently reconstructed further to a fire,
the big Market of Niamey is worth the bend! Around a central
surrounding wall( mainly reserved for foodstuffs (fruits,
vegetables, meat, fishes), divide up small shopkeepers' hundreds.
Tissues tightened between stalls form narrow paths where it's nice
to walk.
- One finds everything there, hi-fi and
electronic devices, traditional boubous, shoes, parfumes... The
salesmen generally workby corporation. The most different smells
are almost the only mark for tourists who promenade in this
wonderful labyrinth.
- If you look for a nice salesman of tissues,
thus go to Moktar's! Where to find him in the Big Market? Please,
let me tell u. When you are in front of the main entrance of the
big market, take the first small entrance on the right side of the
main entrance. Please, take the first path to the left then the
first path to the right. OK, you follow me?!! Moktar's shop is at
the end of this path on the left. Moktar is very nice and he will
always find you the tissue you are loking for!!!
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- The small Market
- Close to the Museum, fruits
and vegetables of the Small market spread their lively colours and
their smells under the bright sun. Tomatoes, grapefruits, oranges,
strawberries, come from gardens which follow the
river.
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- Baleyara
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- On sunday, every nomad and the nearby
villagers of Baleyara, convergent towards the market by foot, by
horseback , by hogback, or taxi. European tourists often come to
this market, quite happy to be able to interrupt routine of Sunday
in Niamey. The market is very known because of its establishment
near Dallol Bosso, long fertile corridor coming to dig a breach of
greenery in a rather dry region.
- Baleyara's market is very famous in part
its important cattle market, with uncountable camels
there.
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- Namaro
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- " Two cliffs liked each other of soft love
and lived together strictly attached. Then, as tells it the oral
tradition, a quarrel burst among cliff man and the cliff woman. A
morning, in the bewilderment of the villagers of Namaro, one of
both cliffs was crossed on the other side of the river. Since,
boat drivers lead the walkers to see both big fragments of cliff
which go up the nurse on each side from the river upstream to
Namaro. They seem to stay up of the traffic of dugouts, very
intense on this part of the river. Especially on Saturday, day of
market. Namaro is renowned for his floating market. Approachable
in dugout, this traditional village collects every Saturday the
storekeepers of neighborhood and offers a rather unusual
animation. In the top of a cliff which dominates the village, a
camp in the magnificent sight welcomes the guests. After a one
hour camel ride, the first dunes of sand give a small idea of
Ténéré.
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