One of our fondest memories of Huaraz on our last trip here was the mandarina man. We would regularily be woken up in our hostel by this unique salesman. While others have signs and some just shout, this guy had a megaphone! His cries of ¨Mandarina, mandarina, mandarina, dos soles por kilo¨ and ¨Naranja dulce¨ could be heard about the town all day. A true entrepreneur!
I bought some mandarinas from him this morning and they sure are sweet. I asked if I could take a video of him and low and behold he was struck dumb until heckled by a passer-by!Watch the video below.
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LOL - was watching the vid and wandering what the point was... Great, the things that you see abroad. Slightly reminds me of the guys in Shanghai who cycle around with a big megaphone, looking for rags and bones... Modern technology!!!
Street sellers are always entertaining - I love the Dublin ones outside of sports events and around Moore street..."Pears, Apples or chocolate?"..."Rappin paper, 3 sheets for 50"...or back when there was a choice of evening papers "herrdin and press" which somehow meant herald and press. In Nairobi there were some great ones but the one I liked best sold paper plates of "Nyama choma" (barbecued meat of all sorts) from a mobile barbecue barrow which he wheeled round calling "nyama choeoeoeoeoeoeoema".
Paddy
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