Foto Flip Friday – February Theme: “MARKETS” (Week 3)

Welcome to a brand new edition of Foto Flip Friday – a selected showcase of photos dredged up from my bountiful photo archives and whittled into pretty little “flip/flop” postcards each Friday. And to add to the fun, each month I’ll challenge myself to unearth a series of images that meet a monthly theme.

For this, the 9th consecutive month of Foto Flip Fridays, I’ve chosen to highlight one of my favorite travel pastimes: wandering amid exotic markets wherever I land. These include not only local craft markets, but also bustling fresh food markets, as well as stray street vendors offering most everything but (and sometimes including) the kitchen sink!

So let’s get started with February’s FFF theme: MARKETS

(Do mouseover to see a short message on the back of each postcard.
Simply mouseover the image and watch the *magic!)

Our first two entries this week capture fond memories for me of one of the last countries I visited before leaving Asia a year ago – dear, sweet, (as yet) untouched by “touristy” (go sooooon, it won’t last long) MYANMAR:

heh, heh, those who visit TL often take note:
Just for fun, I tweaked the “flip” to right/left instead of up/down for a change. 😉

* Well o.k. for those viewing in IE, not so much a magical “flip” as a fading change. If you want to see the flip/flop, try viewing in Chrome or Firefox.

And for our 2nd Myanmar entry – a memory that almost didn’t happen as I truly had to wrestle with myself to drag my bones out of bed in the middle of the night, but hey – it proved to be oh so worth it!:

And this week I couldn’t resist a 3rd entry (yeah, like don’t have a bazillion “Market” pix to choose from) – this, from my idyllic visit to the 2013 Laos Elephant Festival, and a goodly stay in lovely Luang Prabang:

Just one more week to go this month for glimpses of “Markets”, so check back next Friday to see another flip/flop postcard or two from my past.

And meanwhile – if you’d like to submit a “Markets” photo of your own (in landscape format, min. 700 px. wide), just upload it to an online source (e.g. your blog, Facebook, Flickr, etc – make sure the privacy settings are set to “public”), and post a link to it in the comments below.

Wouldn’t you like to see your own travel memory flip-floppin’ here as a digital postcard?

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Dyanne Off-the-beaten-path travel is my passion,and I’ve always lived life “like-a-kid-in-a-candy-store” – eager to sample as many flavors as I can. Indeed, my life motto has long been: This ain’t a dress rehearsal, folks!