Shopping in Manipur

Manipur is surrounded by blue hills and an oval shaped valley is situated at the centre of state. Rich ancient traditions followed by nature’s untouched grandeur produces an awesome aura.

Classical dance of Manipur based on the love story of Radha Krishna attracts every year a large number of people.

Besides this Manipur is a shopping spree also. Shopping in Manipur is completely amazing experience as you will find here large stock of handloom clothes and handicrafts.

Unique craftsmanship of Manipuri handlooms and handicrafts is renowned all over the world due to its lustrous colors and creativity.

Manipuri people are very artistic by nature and thinking. They weave with great zeal and style. Manipuri cotton and silk sarees, Moirangfee and flower printed bed covers, blanket shawls and scarves are all distinctive and exemplary to purchase and collect in home.

Beautiful souvenirs like dolls, jewelry, decorative ivory and handicrafts made from Bamboo wood occupy major part of market. Manipuri hand-woven textiles are the prime shopping attraction here. You can buy marvelous Manipuri dancing dolls which are very famous due to graceful stances.

To buy exclusive handlooms and handicrafts goods you can visit a number of shopping places. Khwairamband market is a very large market that offers exclusive women's goods and is often the first in the list of tourist places to be visited in Manipur.

Paona Bazaar is an ideal place to shop for handicrafts articles and here with fixed price shops you will not have to worry about bargaining also.

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Apart from this Manipur Handlooms Sales Emporium, Tribal Emporium, Handloom House and Sangai Handloom situated nearby the Gandhi memorial are also good shopping places.

Generally people who want to buy local product take their way to Paona Bazaar and Khwairamband market. But if you want to buy imported goods then best place is India-Myanmar border well known as Naphalong (Moreh). Here you can get everything beginning from a needle to jet plane.

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You can shop here without getting tired as shopping places are near to each other except Moreh market which situated at some distance and it takes 3 hours in getting here. Goods like shawl (Hauphee), exclusive wood craft articles, most admired Moirangphee (a thin cloth) and the Tangkhul scarf are the ultimate target of shoppers.

Shopping in Manipur is very cheap and reasonable. Without paying more than you can afford, you get exclusive and unique goods in Manipur market.