Mumbai is a shopper's paradise. The city with its conventional charm and cosmic outlook is reckoned to be an apt tourist place that houses possibly everything for everyone. Mumbai is a store house of contemporary products and antique pieces and handicrafts. While in
Bombay one can shop from jewelry to sports items to interiors to electronic equipments to colorful handicrafts to abstract paintings, fabulous leather ware to the most-modern furniture, and the list goes on. The city vaunts a number of wonderful shopping destinations. It has all from huge shopping malls that keep branded and ultra expensive products to road side shops selling clothes, shoes, jewelery at affordable prices. One feature that is attributable in making Mumbai a wondrous shopping haven is the presence of Bollywood, that keeps the city's people updated with the latest in the fashion and glamor world. With the incubation of every new fashion trend in clothes, shoes, jewelery etc the city also follows it modestly. One visit to the Mumbai's markets will surely leave you addled as to what to buy and what to leave. Some of the famous market places at Mumbai are :
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Chor Bazaar is famous for brassware antiques like old ship parts, grandfather clocks, gramophones, old English tea sets, crystal chandeliers etc.
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Crawford Market is most visited for fresh flowers or for fresh fruits, meat and fish.
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Fashion street is known for its latest and trendy clothes, shoes, jewelery at reasonable prices.
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Breach Candy and Kemps Corner for traditional as well as unconventional clothes.
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Mutton Street is famous for rosewood furniture, crockery, glassware, porcelain, paintings, beads, lamps, masks, etc
The other shops and emporiums that can also be browsed while shopping in Mumbai are Cross and Azad Maidan, Zaveri Bazaar (Jewelry Market) etc. All these markets are a boon in disguise for the shopping lovers all across the country. People visiting Mumbai certainly spare time out of their packed schedules to explore these markets and buy souvenirs for friends and family members.
