Now, turning left at a huge apartment complex, Kira abruptly found herself on a broad street lined with open-air shops.

Today the two-storey marketplace, with over 75 open-air shops and kiosks, is a theme mall with many Hawaiiana or only-in Hawaii shops.

He was sitting on a rope bed, drinking tea, at the Marhaba Call Center, an open-air shop for people who do not have their own telephones.

The grounds, cunningly mapped out with food stalls, open-air shops and canopied tables, feel not like the rest of New York, but like the artificial, ephemeral village this is.

And at the eye of the maelstrom, an old man selling melon seeds and stalks of sugar cane spread on a scrap of cardboard that served as his open-air shop.

Gaily-colored awnings shielded most of the doorways and served as open-air shops; there was no single market square, just a small plaza at the castle gate, and the streets were rather haphazard.

They passed an open-air shop with a row of skinned ducks hanging by their necks.

About a dozen women in traditional costumes wait on customers and prepare sweets under the shady tamarind trees of the open-air shop.

Down three doors on your shady side go, and there an open-air shop with utensils you'll find.

Across the street from the hostel, motorcycles and scooters crowd the sidewalk and shirtless men lounge on folding chairs in front of a row of open-air shops.