A great place to buy cheap food items and herbal medicines; Mercado Modelo

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People call Mercado Modelo with different names like witch doctors’ market, Mercado de Brujos, etc. This famous market is present on the southwest side of the city. Mercado Modelo is well known for herbal medicines to treat various diseases. Some of the medication are the extracts of herbs while some are the whale bones, snake skins, general tonics, and many other aromatic herbs. It is a crowded place because it attracts the buyers towards itself for the low prices and a variety of products.
Apart from the people living in the town, tourists also visit this place to buy several cultural items from the city. Visitors also buy gifts for their friends and families in bulk and at a meager price. People can find out many other things except the medicinal herbs; a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables are sold here; people also buy other food items that are mostly traditional foods of the city. Adine Gavazzi, an Italian anthropologist and architect, reported in one of his studies that this market is the biggest market of Chiclayo that has a vast number of herbal medicines. It contains a variety and a high amount of herbs because of its geographical location as it is close to tone Amazonian and Andean areas. Tourist finds out this place unique because it spreads the knowledge about curing the diseases with natural medicines.
People who do not like to use synthetic drugs visit this place to find solutions and remedies for the treatment of various disorders. This vast market sells a lot of fresh food products like beef, chicken, fish, different kinds of sauces, spices, etc. Visitors also attract the art and cultural items like the handbags, cooking utensils, jewelry, shoes, clothes, and much more. The sellers in the market are so welcoming, and they help a lot if the buyers need to ask about anything. The open and airy market is excellent to wander around if you want to discover natural herbal medicines or fresh food products. It takes a lot of hours to explore the whole market, so if a person who wants to kill time can visit this place. It is a fascinating market with incredible products, someone who visits this place for fun or to collect the info about the medicines, cannot resist purchasing a lot of items at an amazingly low price.

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