World's Strangest Markets

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You should definitely visit these strange markets when travelling! Join us as we take a look at some food markets, animal shops and a lot more strange stores from around the world! Subscribe for new videos: http://goo.gl/SaufF4 9: The Ka Firushi Bird Market Kabul’s bird bazaar, known as the Ka Firushi Bird market or Alley of Straw Sellers, might remind you of a certain Hitchcock movie. Located along a narrow lane behind the Pul-e Khishti Mosque, the market is lined with stalls where the vendors display hundreds of species of birds. The rusty cages may give you the impression you are stepping back in time a hundred years, as the market has remained untouched by war 8: The Muara Kuin Floating Market The Muara Kuin Floating Market used to be located on the mouth of the river Kuin Barito, Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan (Indonesia). The vendors used to display their merchandise on boats named “Jukung”, after the morning prayers, until 9 AM. The traders (or dukuh), which were usually women, used to sell their own products, mostly fresh fruit and vegetables. However, there were also secondhand goods 7: The Donghuamen Night Market If you have an adventurous spirit and an appetite for unconventional food, then perhaps Beijing’s Donghuamen Night Market is just the place for you. The stalls spread over a 200-meter-long street and host some of the most unusual dishes in the world. The market is only open at night and has been around since 1984. Daring foodies from all over the world come here to taste specialties like fried scorpions, cooked bugs and unconventional animal parts, silkworm cocoons and many more. Some of the weirdest foods displayed on the stalls are, reportedly, the centipedes, which are supposed to be bitter 6: Spider Market The Cambodian city of Skuon, also known as Spiderville or Spider Town, holds one of the strangest markets in the world: the spider market. The town is so infested with arachnids that they fall off the trees or off the buildings and drop straight onto people’s heads. In fact, there are so many spiders in Skuon that locals have taken 5: The Deyrolle Taxidermy Shop The Deyrolle taxidermy shop, named after its founder, Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle, is located on the classy Rue du Bac in Paris. Walking into this unusual store might be a hair-raising experience for the unexperienced buyer, as it is packed with stuffed animals. Tigers, zebras, giraffes, bears, baby elephants, elk heads, bear rugs and many more. Although it first opened as a pedagogical market, Deyrolle now attracts stuffed animal collectors and also hunters, who are eager to immortalize their trophies. If you want to take a lion home you will have to spend at least 10,000 euros, while a penguin costs approximately 2,530 euros. Most tourists that don’t want to leave empty-handed choose to buy the rabbit, as it’s one of the cheapest items in the shop with a price of only 600 euros 4: The Maeklong Railway Market The Bangkok Railway Market is one of the most famous unusual markets in the world. Located down the street from the Maeklong Railway Stations, the vendor’s activity gets disrupted six times a day by the train that runs right through the middle of it. When it approaches, a warning bell goes off, so the vendors begin pulling back their merchandise so that only the flatter fruit and vegetables 3: The Gypsy Bridal Market Young Romani girls dressed in provocative mini-skirts and gowns are sold by their parents to young men at the Gypsy bridal market in Bulgaria. Thousands of people gather to witness the marriage agreements that take place between the parents of the teen girls and the parents of the grooms-to-be. The fair reportedly takes place twice a year and it begins with groups of boys and girls flirting and checking each other out, while their mothers and fathers are watching. The girls wear what are supposed to be sexy gowns and heavy make-up, while the boys are usually dressed in black leather jackets and jeans 2: The Akodessewa Fetish Market The Akodessewa Fetish Market in Togo, Lome, displays the largest collection of Voodoo items in the world. Visitors are greeted by local practitioners, who invite them to try or have a look at their mystic items. Some of the strangest objects you can find on the stalls are animal heads, especially bull or tiger heads, and even human skulls. The fetish priests claim to be able to communicate with the gods according to the customer’s needs, to find out whatever item 1: Witches’ Market in La Paz, Bolivia Also known as El Mercado de las Brujas and La Hechiceria, the Witches’s Market in La Paz, Bolivia, is located on Calle Jimenez and Linares, within a lively touristic area. Raw ingredients used in rituals, dried llama and frog fetuses, dried turtles and snakes, multiple herbs, folk remedies or owl feathers are exposed on the vendors’ stalls. The merchandise also includes aphrodisiac formulas, potions and other enthralling ingredients used for calling on the spirits from the Aymara