You can smell fish while you are still underground walking towards the exit of the subway system. It’s not an unpleasant smell, but it’s definitely there. Then you have arrived and it is enormous. A vast marketplace. We arrived after the morning auction and tried very hard to stay out of the way of all of the bustle as orders were fulfilled and dispatched. Motorbikes stood at the ready or were whizzing past us.
It all seemed like the setting for a James Bond chase scene. We understand there are plans to move this market. Perhaps it will be a bit less accessible to us tourists. That would be a shame, although we had to be very alert to avoid the motorbikes, bicycles, cargo movers, buckets of water being dumped on the floor, hoses gushing out to wash down the floor and thousands of workers scurrying about.
