I believe that this is the first time in our travels that we have visited a ‘milk market’. We stopped here first thing in the morning on this day. The market was just along the side of the road. The milk market entails wholesalers, retailers, buyers, customers, and everyone else that’s interested, like us. In this milk market, they sold cow, buffalo, and goat’s milk. Cow’s milk is for babies and nursing mothers and is more expensive. Most people buy milk every day and make yogurt, so milk is a staple. Our guide said that this milk market does not sell camel’s milk because camel’s milk only has a shelf life of four hours. Other milk markets, however, do sell camel’s milk as well.

You can see milk coming in from a dairy in the first photo. I don’t think that all the guys in back work for the dairy. I suspect that the driver was just picking up some extra money by giving these guys a ride. We almost never saw any vehicles driving on the road without people loaded in them.

You can see people selling and buying milk in the second photo. Some people purchased milk for resale, others purchased milk for themselves. The photo that I didn’t get was a guy testing the milk. He sticks two fingers down into the big milk can and watches and feels the milk as it drips off his fingers. Our guide said that was to test if the seller had ‘cut’ the milk with water. I wondered where some of those guys fingers had been prior to sticking them into the milk.

A guy is about ready to go deliver or resell some milk in the third photo.

We purchased chai tea quite a few times in India from people on the streets, families in towns that we walked through, and at a truck stop. We had chai tea made with cow’s milk, buffalo’s milk and camel’s milk. They were all good. I thought the camel’s milk chai was a bit stronger, but Vicky didn’t seem to think so. Mostly the chai tea was very sweet due to plenty of sugar.