Shopping in Goa..........................

 

Goa is a paradise for shopaholics. The buzzing flea markes in the beaches and the colorful local markets are a delight for any tourist who wants to purchase souvenir items at throw away prices. Indegenous artifacts made of shell work, brassware, curios and old coins, trinkets made of furniture are highly popular with the tourists.These colorful, boisterous local markets are shopping havens providing a glimpse of the rural Goa and the craftsmanship of the natives. The beaches lined up with numerous shops where the noisy vendors compete with each other offering cheapest bargain is a delightful experience. Hence it has been rightly said that more than shopping, the entire experience of visiting each and every tiny shop in Goa having local flavour is something to be cherished for a long time.

 

Goa Flea Market

 

 

Goa is famous for its local markets namely the Anjuna flea market and Mapusa friday market. These markets offer cheapest bargains. The Arjuna flea market which was earlier the famous auction ground of the belongings of the hippies is now a full fledged souvenir bazaar where hawkers from different parts of the country sell handicraft items such as costume jewellery, ethnic bags and several other indegenous products. One can also get cameras, swimming gears, bikes at throw way prices.

 

The weekly Friday market at Mapusa is a delightful commercial hub famous for the popular feni and urak. One can also get a slice of Goan sausages, meat, cashews. The native jute, leather products are worth buying.

 

Goa Handicrafts

 

Goa Handicrafts
Goa Handicrafts

 

Handicrafts of Goa are very unique and the most treasured assets that depict the creativityof its natives and excellent craftmanships of the local artists. The handicrafts items are not only purely ethinc but beautifully made out of natural stuff like coconut husk and palm leaves. Some of the sought after items are colorful masks, terracotta items, chandeliers, sea shell mirrors. There are several shops in Goa famous for Goan crafts which are listed below. Goa Rural Handicrafts and Small Scale Industries Development Corporation.

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