Madurai Flower Market

Camera: Canon 20D
Lens: EF 17-40 f/4L @ 17mm (27mm equiv)
Exposure: 1/160 sec at f/5.6, ISO 800



Camera: Canon 20D
Lens: EF 17-40 f/4L @ 17mm (27mm equiv)
Exposure: 1/25 sec at f/5.6, ISO 800



Camera: Canon 20D
Lens: EF 17-40 f/4L @ 17mm (27mm equiv)
Exposure: 1/50 sec at f/5.6, ISO 800
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The Lonely Planet guide says that there's a flower market hidden in a building near to the Sri Meenakshi temple in Madurai, great photo opportunity I though, so off we went in search of it.

I had dragged along my girlfriend and Deborah (an Aussie was travelling on her own who we had met some days earlier). As the building is hidden away we were looking a bit lost and we were surrounded by children begging for money. A man came over an chased the children away, he asked if he could help us. So we described that we were looking for the place that all the flower traders and garland makers bought their flowers. He knew exactly where and led us off... we seemed to be getting too far away from the temple (if the guide book was to be believed) but we soon stopped at a little side street and followed the guy down the increasingly dirty road. We got to the bottom of some steps after hopping over some big puddles and piles of soft looking wet crap. The steps were thick with this nastiness, we soon realised that we were in the right place as the stuff on the steps looked like plant matter of some kind.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I had a good look around upstairs and took a quite a few photographs. The girls left after about 2 minutes to clean the black mushy nasiness off their feet and to find somewhere they could buy some Dettol (no, really). Then once we were back out, our informal 'guide' turned out to be a hawker for one of the local emporiums. No real surprise, just a little disappointing as he seemed ok.

So the photographs don't really show the dirtyness of the place at all and funnily enough I've just been chatting to this guy over email about the same subject. Take a look at his stuff, it's pretty cool.