Anjuna Flea Market
Weekly beachfront bazaar born from broke travelers bartering belongings, now packed with global street food and local spirits.
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This guide to Anjuna Flea Market in Goa traces its start to the late nineteen sixties, when broke foreign travelers laid their guitars and jewelry on the sand to trade for a meal, a habit locals credit an American drifter known as eight-finger Eddie with turning into a formal weekly gathering around nineteen seventy-five. It follows the market's slow shift from a barter of last resort into today's Wednesday-only bazaar of tie-dye stalls, Tibetan singing bowls, and street food stands roasting corn and frying samosas. You'll hear how the hippies who founded it ran out of money but never appetite. Come hungry and work from the trinkets toward the food stalls.
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