GOA ONLINE SHOPPING

Goa Online Shopping :

A memorable sojourn to Goa is not without the taste of shopping experience. Tagged as a shopper’s heaven mostly for its low cost and varied products, Goa shopping experience is accounted as the one of the main things that tourists do here. Even as daily business is on at the various markets of Goa towns, tourists are looking out for something new for themselves. Except Sundays, Mapusa Market vendors call in shoppers willing to buy clothes, ethnic dresses of Goa, trinkets, silver jewelry, and other fashion wear. Friday market of Mapusa town in the state is an open place to buy vegetables, sea fishes, and other edible species. Tourists having kitchen facility at their hotels and resorts, go for fresh sea fishes. Goa is famous for wooden furniture and bamboo products, visitors can buy handicraft pieces made to take home for their relatives and friends. It is said that whatever you buy in Goa, becomes a memorabilia. Antiques and souvenirs are among the best buy here.

Whenever we descend on a foreign location for vacationing, shopping for keepsakes is regarded a task as essential as the regular sightseeing tours. While Goa is famous for its splendid beauty, it is also a shopper's paradise with a vast wealth of indigenous artifacts. But more than the shopping items, it's the composite shopping experience in Goa that will leave you mesmerized.

The real joy of shopping in Goa can only be experienced in the local markets and the flea markets in the Goan beaches. These bustling local markets are a kaleidoscope of rural Goa with villagers of the neighboring areas bringing their agricultural produce. The Friday market of Mapusa is particularly famous among the local markets. The Goa beaches too are shopping havens with noisy vendors feverishly trying to outbid each other. The Wednesday flea market of Anjuna beach is world famous with an astounding variety of shopping attractions.

As far as the shopping items are concerned, you will get the opportunity to choose from a wide range of artifacts and momentos. Artifacts made of shell work, bamboo work, brassware, curios and old coins, trinkets made of stones and corals, artifacts made of papier-mâché, carved furniture, and beachwear are some of the popular entries in shopping carts. 

While you bask in this shopping extravaganza, make it a thumb rule to bargain to your heart's content. In most cases, the quoted price is far higher than the actual price and use your 
persuasion and negotiation skills while bargaining with the feisty Goan vendors.
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.


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