10 Best Places For Shopping In Thimphu

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10 Best Places For Shopping In Thimphu

Here’s a list of ten top places where you shop till you drop in Thimphu. No doubt, there’s a lot you can bring home from Bhutan and these 10 places prove that pretty well.

1. National Handicrafts Emporium

main street shops around.

The traditional Bhutanese handicraft items can be found in here. One can easily spot the varieties of hand woven items by the Thimphu women. They are the ones which should be brought from this city only as it is the authentic place to buy. You could spot other handicraft products in the main street shops around. The location of this place could be asked by anybody and people can’t lie about being here. Shopping in Thimphu can get old school!

2. The Thimphu Post Office

interesting souvenir

This might seem a bit confusing for the shoppers. But the unique thing about the post office is that they get your desired picture on the stamps. You could choose the picture and get it printed on your pen drive or mobile phone’s cover or even on a clothing piece. This could be an interesting souvenir for yourself and loved ones. A t-shirt or any shawl could captivate and please anybody. Some of the best you can squeeze in as far as shopping in Bhutan Thimphu is concerned.

3. Adang Village in Wangdue Phodrang

Adang Village

This area is famous for the hand-woven textiles. It is the quality of rural women to make the textiles as accurately as they should be. The quality of fabric, the texture of the cloth and the phenomenal designs will entice you to buy them. You could spot textiles of various fabrics like cotton, silk, bura, kushithara, etc. The latter ones are some of the traditional ones. This could be an interesting getaway from the main city. Go on ladies, the best shopping in Thimphu tour awaits you!

4. The Voluntary Artists Studio

The Voluntary Artists Studio

This place is a treat for the art lovers. It is the hotspot of all the local artists of the city. You could find an exhibition of their art work. It is located at the tarayana centre, chang lam, chubachu, Thimphu. It sports all the traditional as well as the emerging art too. So one could try to enjoy the process of the making of art pieces, the qualities one must have while making the art pieces and then buy. It is among the special places for shopping in Thimphu.

5. Paro

traditional carved masks

You could find in here a lot of things to shop for. This is not exactly situated in Thimphu but another nearby place which has to be visited to get great things to shop. There are those traditional carved masks available. The Bhutanese culture has the importance of creative and colourful masks as a part of their festivals. Paro is a shopping site where you can find many other things like jewellery, cane and bamboo items, paintings and lot more. You can surely grab some of the special things to buy in Bhutan.

6. Weekend Market

raditional thangkas, textiles, art and craft materials

This market sets up as per its name at the western side of the Wang chhu and northwards to the changlimithang stadium. It will begin at about Thursday and remains open till Sunday night. One could shop the traditional thangkas, textiles, art and craft materials and a lot of products from this market. One can dine in here to have some interesting snacks and delicacies of the place. Another interesting thing is the availability of incense sticks with wide variety of flavours.

7. Norzin Lam Craft Stalls

Norzin Lam Craft Stalls

It is one of the most visited places to shop the local items of arts and crafts. This place is for all the creative people. The beautiful designs, the colourful pieces, the intricate designs entice to buy and treat your eyes as much as you can. Its location is also a great one which is near the The Taj Tashi hotel. You could find a vast multitude of stalls sporting the amazing craft items. Street shopping in Thimphu is undoubtedly one of the best things to do in Bhutan!

8. Sephub Gyeltsen Tsongkhang

Sephub Gyeltsen Tsongkhang

This market sports the best clothes made by the traditional Bhutanese people. It will get you the clothing pieces made by the locales. The beautiful colours, the magic of handmade textiles will get you mesmerised by its sheer nature. It has clothes for men, women, girls and boys of all sizes. They get you the best clothes which even have their global appeal. Lay your hands on some of the best things to buy in Bhutan.

9. Gagyel Lhundrup Weaving Centre

specially made woollens

If you are in mountainous city, you have to buy the specially made woollens. The only precaution could be to buy from the authentic shops so that you buy at the right place. Generally it is the gimmick of the tourist centres that one could be easily tricked for the prices. This store is located in the south end of the city in an area named Changzamtog. It is a private centre adorning the woven material. This woven material is authentic hand woven by the locales of the area.


Tarayana

This Bhutanese city is famous for more or less traditional arts and crafts, handicrafts by the local people. It gets you the best of the rural areas of the city. Usually the rural women have the art of keeping the traditional culture of the country. And this when put for sale can get the travellers the best one could get from the city. The ones to specifically watch out for is the scarves, bags, paper products and the nettle place mats.




Location: Bhutan

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