The small daily market in the centre of Dacarbudhuq is the kind of place where the town's rhythm is most visible: a few dozen stalls selling vegetables trucked up from the lowlands, sacks of rice, lengths of fabric, and the occasional flock of goats waiting under a tree. Camel milk (caano geel) is sold in plastic bottles from the back of pickups.
It is busiest in the late morning and again briefly in the early evening, when traders close their stalls and walk back to their houses. Foreigners attract polite curiosity; a few words of Somali (or Arabic) go a long way.