Visiting the Marketplace in Vanuatu & a Look at the Gorgeous, Naturally Growing Flowers – Part VI

As we wind our “trip” to Vanuatu to a close, we must make another stop, this time to the 24 hour marketplace.

In Vanuatu, they grow most of their own food.

Beautiful!

For baskets, they weave coconut leaves.

You can also buy the leaves for various usages. One use is to wrap up their lunch.

After they carefully place their lunch inside a coconut leaf, they wrap it up like a package and take a “string” which is from a (coconut??) leaf and tie it together.

I find this amazing and beautiful.

The flowers that grow naturally in Vanuatu captured Zachary’s attention. Who can blame him?  They are beautiful.

These flowers were quite interesting. They just hung like this from the trees.

I’ve never seen a flower quite like it. Do we have anything similar in the U.S.?

The flower of a banana tree! As each of those red petals unfolds, small little bananas begin to form (you can see them in the picture).

The banana cluster’s point upwards.

I don’t know how much this flower weighs but in the picture it looks like it could kill someone from the weight of it. 🙂

There were nut trees, trees with unusual root systems, mango and papaya trees,but the pictures I have posted will give you an idea of the wide variety of plant life there.

I’ll try to wrap up this series of the Vanuatu trip next post. 🙂