The Mysore markets specialise in fruit and veg and flowers. The smell was fresh and delicious. We spent hours wandering up and down the isles. I've been wearing fresh flowers in my hair for the last week as the locals do. Every so often you get a wiff of jasmine or rose and it insulates you from all the dung and rot. When I first stated doing it, one of the girls kept saying "Oh that's a lovely incense I can smell" - It was fun to tell her it was me she could smell :)
The flowers are cleverly strung on metres and metres of string and sold bulk to then be made into offerings that people buy to take to the temple. Marigolds of every hue, roses of every colour, jasmine still attracting bees all carefully wound so nothing falls out and they can be cut at any point and not unravel. No knots.
The flowers are cleverly strung on metres and metres of string and sold bulk to then be made into offerings that people buy to take to the temple. Marigolds of every hue, roses of every colour, jasmine still attracting bees all carefully wound so nothing falls out and they can be cut at any point and not unravel. No knots.
Marigolds by the tonne
Flowers woven for use as offerings
Large offerings for sale
Sacks of roses
100's of metres of marigolds
By the kilo
My daily head gear
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