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Phil's All Embracing Bhutan Slide Show Weekend Market in Thimphu The next day we went to the weekend market, an outdoor set of stalls not that different than an American farmer's market, except it's full of strange vegetables and fruits and Bhutanese and Buddhist artifacts and other unusual people and things. This colorful photo is a set of "yathras" for sale, shawls made of yak wool (sometimes sheep wool), a very versatile piece of fabric. One of the creative uses of yathras is to make a baby papoose, a common sight in Bhutan. Back Next Page 35.