Shopper's Paradise: Shopping In Mumbai

Shopping in Mumbai will be a memorable experience as you wander through its Bazars with striking names like Chor Bazar, Mutton Street and Zaveri Bazar. At Chor Bazar you'll find a phenomenal collection of antiques, jewellery, wooden articles, leatherware and general bric-a-brac.

Crawford market, famous for flowers, fruits, meat and fish is certainly a place worth capturing on your camera. Zaveri Bazar offers an excellent range of jewellery items. For colourful and innovative carpets one should head for Mereweather Road behind the Taj Mahal Hotel. Here the range is higher. To be on the safer side. One could however, check at the Jammu and Kashmir Emporium first. Several state emporium in the World Trade Centre, at Cuffe Parade are an ideal place to buy a souvenir, a rare artefact or textiles. The Central Cottage Induatries Emporium (Apollo Bunder) and Khadi Village Industries Emporium (D.N. Road) with their fixed price tags, are genuine and of superb quality.

Colaba and Flora Fountain (Hutatama Chowk) in the heart of South Mumbia and walking distance from Mumbai VT and Churchgate Railway stations are full of shopping of all kinds, mainly ethnic artifacts and departmental stores.

Walk into Fashion Street and shop for your new summer wardrobe. This street is close to the famous Metro Cinema and Dhodi Talao.

For those who look the glamorous the ideal place to shell out some money would be Kemps Corner, Warden Road, Breach Candy and Napean Sea Road.

Bandra, the so called Queen of Suburbs is the residential abode of the who's who of Mumbia film stars, industrialists and the likes. Linking Road joins Bandra to Khar and is the elite. But the striking contrast here is the pavement selling which adds to the thrill while you walk out of a posh showroom.

The famous essence and perfume industry in India had its prime ingredient called Itar. Although the Itar is now only concentrated towards kanauj in U.P., right here in Mumbia you could get a sample of it the way it used to be. Yes, walk into the famous Mohammed Ali Road and shop to your heart's content for Itar, embroidery and Zari work besides artifacts and souvenirs.