Jaffa Night Market

Thursday night, I hopped on a bus to visit the weekly Jaffa street market.  After I spent some time admiring the beautifully restored historic buildings, nighttime settled in and the market came to life, with throngs of people on the streets and merchants hawking their wares, selling everything from furniture, to ceramics, to jewelry, to pots and pans, to old posters and photographs, to brightly colored guitars.



I also got my live music fix, with several bands jamming in front of closed storefronts.  The band pictured below played an intriguing fusion of middle eastern and jazzy sounds, and attracted a pretty large and diverse crowd of listeners.

In an earlier post, I described the quiet and atmospheric alleys of Jaffa's old town and port.  But the street market is in "new" Jaffa, which dates only to Ottoman times and experiences higher decibel levels and perhaps some more colorful characters (who are those men dressed as women on stilts?).  And when all this activity makes you hungry, just head over to the brick oven bakery for a tasty sambusa!