Shopping In Jaisalmer

The "Golden City" Jaisalmer offers a unique shopping experience to its visitors. To be honest, it wouldn't be an exaggeration if we say that your Jaisalmer trip would be incomplete if you don't buy some typical Jaisalmer goods as a token of remembrance of this place. The narrow bazaar lanes of the city are lined up with shops on both sides, offering a wide range of items including irresistibly beautiful handicraft items.

Jaisalmer is popular for its mirror work embroidered garments and carpets, blankets and shawls, woolen pattu, carpets made from camel hair, tapestry, oil lamps, finely cut antiques, old stonework, silver jewelery and silk and cotton textiles. The good quality wooden items like wooden boxes, trinkets, souvenirs and curios are also worth buying in Jaisalmer.

The main shopping areas in Jaisalmer are Sadar Bazaar, Sonaron Ka Bas, Manak Chowk, Pansari Bazaar and Gandhi Darshan. Within the Jaisalmer Fort complex is a big shop 'Light of the East', which sells crystals and rare mineral specimen, including Zeolites. The main market place of Jaisalmer is known for bargaining, the market also offers a variety of local handicraft items.

Zila Khadi Gramodan Parishad, Khadi Gramyodyog Bhawan (Seema Gram) and Rajasthali are the Govt. shops selling handicrafts. Here you will get the quality product at a fixed price