Los Globos is a 12 square block section of mostly open air market stalls in the middle of Ensenada. You can find everything there, like super fresh produce at unbelievably cheap prices, fresh meat, ice cream, tents, old keyboards, antique wood-burning stoves, vintage rocking horses, entire bedroom sets for $120 and pretty much any kind of second-hand item you can dream up. We finally rode up there and it was overwhelmingly good. Came back with bags of groceries, including a huge bag of beautiful squash flowers that we made into quesadillas. It was the best.
Deliciousness to the left, deliciousness to the right.
Eli humoring me with a smile. What he's really thinking is, "Mom, haven't you taken enough pictures, already?"
You don't get a cart or a basket or a bunch of plastic bags everywhere. Instead, you grab a big plastic tub and fill it up with everything you want and they bag it up at the checkout.
Bins of tunas for sale. Not tuna-the-fish, but tuna-the-cactus-fruit.
Grains and beans and honey and random goodness.
Chiles and squash make really good enchiladas.
Ropes of beef and pork chorizo for sale.
Note the eggs. If eggs aren't refrigerated first, you can leave them out for weeks and they don't go bad. Only if they have never been refrigerated.
These guys filled sack after sack of chiles.
This cheese is the best quesadilla cheese I've ever tried.
Huge bags of chiles for sale.
Tennis shoes hanging from an archway at the Los Globos open air market stalls.
They've got bulk bins of everything, like the garlic and chiles you see, but also things like dense cones of unrefined piloncillo sugar, dried white hominy, even dog and rabbit food.
I suspect these were full of fruits and vegetables this morning, before the Los Globos market stalls opened up.
Eli had a leche y fresa paleta (strawberries and cream). There's huge chunks of fresh strawberries all throughout the bar, and they always have one stuck on the end of the stick. Too good.
Cantaloupe paleta--that's a popsicle. Mexico dominates the popsicle scene. All that's in this is sweet cantaloupe juice with diced up bits of melon. Best thing to eat on a hot day while out shopping!
Beautiful vegetables for sale in a side alleyway.
Waiting for customers in the heat of the day.
Los Globos is the best bargain for fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats in Ensenada.
This man was loading the tomatoes into wood crates for sale at the little veggie stands in Los Globos.
Delicious olives and cheeses
This is what a cabbage really looks like.
Stacking cucumbers
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FYI, 10 pesos a kilo is about 35 cents a pound.
First off your photography and subjects are fabulous. Second Geez how I miss third world living!! Everything is more organic- alive with color, animo, human factor. And lastly, thank you for sharing this adventure with such a strong emphasis exerted by the Tamiko Factor. I love it!!!
Eli’s going to start posting, too. I love the fact that we all have slightly different takes on this incredible experience and totally different styles, as well. All that diversity stuff is cool:-)
Dude…no offense…10pz is 70 cents US
Yes, but it’s 10 pz a kilo. 2.2 lbs a kilo but you’re Canadian, you know what a kilo is. c:
I agree and appreciate all sides and views. Dude… WTF! Sorry the above comment is— well let’s just say in my forty years of travel I have never had the displeasure….