The rest of these pictures were taken by me. A couple weeks ago I bought fabric from the fabric vendors (up close in Stacy's photo above and from a distance in mine, below) and they're nice ladies.
No one seemed to mind that I was taking pictures - I tried to stay in the background and make it obvious that I wanted a view of the general market scene and not anyone in particular, which may have helped. It was a pretty normal day - crowded, noisy, too many motos, lots of trashfire smoke and a wide variety of smells, ranging from frying fish to old meat to fresh soap to moto exhaust.
Those are the towers of Kankan's big mosque (another landmark) in the background above, but the real reason I took this photo is that the "new" Senegalese restaurant is on the second floor of the building in front of the mosque, right where the palm trees are. The "Peace Bakery" below is right next to where Katie K. used to live - sometimes it's hard to get a photo without someone strolling (or moto-ing) into the frame.
And that concludes our brief tour of Kankan. I have more photos to upload, of New Years and my neighbors, but those may have to wait for next week and the Peace Corps office's (comparatively) fast internet.
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