Tips About Shopping In Goa???

veronique

NEED HELP TO PLAN MY SHOPPING SPREE IN GOA
ANYONE COULD HELP?
by the way would anyboby know which one is the more expensive place to shop mumbai or goa.im going to both
so which one should i reserved my momey for???

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crvlvr

Why all these separate posts about shopping? Anyways, best place to shop for indian stuff in goa is the Satuirday Night Flea market at Arpora. The shopping caters to foreign tourists, so you will find most of what you are looking for there. Google "Arpora Flea Market" and you will a lot of hits. Chennai will be a little more difficult as the shopping is not catered to the foreign tourist.

veronique

[quote=crvlvr]Why all these separate posts about shopping?



cause I wanted it to appeal to people from the particular places stated or india-fashion addict and not to people with general ideas that I can find in travel guide
people who would know a bit more than the touristy thing
and also because Iam after a particular type of fashion called indo-western,-style,not everybody would know about it...

that s why?

crvlvr

yeah, but all your posts are on the same Forum Anyways, i hope i have provided some useful information to your questions about shopping in Chennai and goa

veronique

oh ok sorry iam quite new
so dunno how everything works yet....

fredericknoronha

Other India Bookstore (above old Mapusa Clinic... and hard to locate) in Mapusa for books about Goa and a wide range of alternative books about India. Friday Market in Mapusa and Saturday Bazaar in Calangute (the traditional ones, at the former fishing-village market, for a rustic feel of Goa.

Goa government's Aaparant handicraft stalls for handicrafts. Exhibitions that continually take place in Panjim and or Margao, offering handicrafts from other states in India. Clothing exhibitions that are often on in various parts of Panjim (Clube Nacional, 18th June Road, etc).

Useful gold and silver from the jewellers at Mapusa (take care of prices and purity though). Recreated antique furniture from Camarcazana in Mapusa. Get a suite (Western style) or silk clothes stitched with Goa's apt tailors. Boutiques (both Indian and western style) in Panjim, Margao, Porvorim. Beauty saloons that dot the towns of Goa. The unusual music of Goa (a mix of East and West) in music shops like Rock and Raga (Panjim), Sinaris, and Margao. Musical instruments, a wide range indeed, from Pedro & Son in Panjim, Furtados and other outlets. Portuguese wines in outlets likeA Nau in the heart of Panjim. Art works from a small but growing number of museums.Furniture... if you have the means of taking it back home!

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JeRiKo1

Just want to second the oppionon on the Arpora Saturday Night Flea Market.
Better prices than Wednesday Anjuna
Less hassle than Wednesday Anjuna
Cooler (temperaturewise) than Wednesday Anjuna

and afterwards head to Club Cubana (or something like that) - its not far from the market ground and offers drinks-on-the-house for about .. 800 Rps for a couple (something in that range) and is a very scenic place for a party.

P.S: Not the hardcore Goa trance there !

veronique

love these tips
was actually wondering about it

thankssssssssss
I am not interesting in goa trance
relaxing holydays

i am going in may do they have nights markets in may?

veronique

all these are very precious tips
iam going to study them carefully

oytun

there are some tibetian markets in different parts of goa(calangute,baga as i remember ) ,you have to see them,you can buy traditional tibetian accessories,tibetian musics,and 'free tibet' t-shirts and lots of very beautiful things.

veronique

yeah ur right id heard of that too at one point
strange that people dont talk about it more

would you more about them?
like when,which day,what time?

cheers

oytun

2 years ago they were open,.they were like open shops,all placed in same places everyday.i remember one in baga and one in calangute.i m sure they are still open.
there are also too many tibetian sellers in flea market.

fredericknoronha

The Outlook Traveller, which is a Delhi-based publishing group, has published a guide to Goa (542 pp, Rs 225, ISBN 81-901724-9-2, 2004) Check pages 324 to 355, which deal with shopping.

It covers handicrafts, lifestyle stores, flea markets, the big city bazaars, beachside shopping and books on Goa.

Handicrafts range from work by local artisans in shell (lampshades, jewellery, mirrors), terracotta (pots, urns, wall hangings), jute, coconut shell, bamboo, and brass. Also, fine embroidery and lace. Terracotta "heads the list of traditional art forms available in Goa with vast selections made by the artisans from Kumbharvada in Bicholim." Also recommended are homemade sweets, pickles and 'papads' (spicy fry-able foodstuff).

Quite a few non-government outlets are also listed for handicrafts. You need to know the values before you go there!

Another new tradition is that of Azulejos, it's actually a recently-revived tradition dating back to the Portuguese times. Azulejos are hand-painted and glazed blue-and-white ceramic tiles. See http://www.costavin.com. Outlook calls them "perfect Goan souvenirs" -- lightweight and easily carried.

Some of the recommendations here tend to be up-market ones, and I guess this misses out the real flavour of Goa, as compared to the place as the locals know it... and treasure it. You need to walk in the spicy-and-fish smelling innards of the Mapusa market to get the local flavour

Visitors to Goa also like appreciate the price-versus-quality of some non-traditional itesm -- leather shops, dentistry services, and even the opthalmologists and spectacles that one can buy here.

There are two problems however -- a lot of the products made here are targeted directly at the tourist. So you'll never know what travelled from a thousand kilometres away just to find a market. This is globalisation (or regionalisation at its height). Secondly, while bargining too hard could put additional pressures on an already-stressed artisan class, if you don't take care of the prices you could end up paying extra to some undeserving middleman. There's a fine line between the two.

Food and drink, apart from music, is another Goan exotica item. The best bet is to pick up some of those hard-to-find books about food and wine. In the latter category, my one-time schoolteacher and scoutmaster Edwin Saldanha wrote a book on how to make your own wines at home. He claims this is the "only book in the world" that shows how to make wine from the most mundane of *tropical* fruit -- including bananas and mangoes! Another book on alcohol is by Gracias, and deals with Goan alcoholic beverages and mixes.

sharma Gautam

hi
contact 9850463745 Rupesh this guy know everything about goa while my trip he helped me greatly.
i am indian but finding an honest indian in goa is very tuff task. been many time to goa but he help me always.
Gautam

anjunaangel

hi ,in my opinion the saturday night market is more expenive than the wednesday flea markst and the fle a market in anjuna is cheaper.the problem with apora night market is that there are loads of europeans that have stalls and a lot of the indian people cant afford a pitch on a saturday.therefore the prices are reflected here.for tibetian thnigs go to baga they are open every day and for clothes head towards chpora and there are stalls on the road they will copy anything you have or maybe choose some of their designs hope this helps