Shopping in Nepal is truly rewarding experience. You can bring back many exciting memories back home from your tour in Nepal. Nepal is not only the land with miraculous beauty but also the heaven for shoppers. You can buy many unique and exotic items from Nepal. You can not resist yourself buying handicrafts and the local craft items.

During the shopping tour in Nepal, you can purchase things like jewelry, clothes, images, local Nepalese craft, antiques, electronics and more. There are small shops set up by villagers from where you can buy beautiful pottery. With special permission from the Department of Archeology, you can take antiques out of the country.

One of the famous shopping places in Nepal is the traditional craftsman’s colony. Here you can find wide range of Nepalese handicrafts. You can buy beautiful and different kind of clothing from Nepal such as Kashmiri shawls, Tibetan Robes, Wrap around, Kurtas and more. For ladies, embroidered kaftans are a good choice. If you want decorative handicraft items, then Kathmandu is the perfect location to buy things like miniature painting, bronze busts, stone idols, junk jewelry and more.

Famous markets in Nepal includes Patan, Bhaktapur, Pokhara, Bir Gunj, Biratnagar, Janakpur, Kathmandu and Lumbini. Bhaktapur and Patan are famous for the copper and bronze items of all kinds. Miniature bronze idols and busts are popular among tourists. A must buy is the Bronze Buddha idol. Khukri is another must buy; though you can not carry a real one as it is not allowed in airlines but you can buy a miniature Khukri. If you want to buy Gorkha insignias like flags, banners and medals, Pokhara offers the best. Other thing, which Pokhara is famous for, is Newari Artifacts, produced by culturally rich Newar race in Nepal.

For cheap electronic items, Janakpur, Bir Gunj and Biratnagar are the best markets. These markets offer Chinese, Japanese and Korean electronic goods. Kathmandu and Lumbini are best places to purchase Buddhist paraphernalia. In Kathmandu, you can buy virtually anything from tiger balm to clothing, beads, jewelry, souvenirs, Thangka paintings, masks, rugs and hiking and trekking gears of all sorts.

Though Nepal markets offer wide range of products which will lure you but you have to be an expert in the art of bargaining and dickering. Also carry some change with you. Often the shopkeepers say that they do not have change and you will have to leave money.