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 Goa's Mapusa Market - Mapusa,
a small town about 13 km away from Panaji has functioned as
the market hub of North Goa ever since the ancient days prior
to the construction of proper roads. A holiday in Goa is not
consummate without the thrill of shopping and the best way
you can satiate your shopping urge is by visiting the Mapusa Market of Goa.
Mapusa comes alive every Friday when the entire resident
and non-resident population of Bardez descends on the city
for its popular weekly Goa's Mapusa Market day. The visitors delight in
the color and cacophony that pervades the place. Women from
the neighboring districts and fishing communities throng the
Mapusa Market of Goa to hawk their wares. The market brims
with fresh fish, a variety of locally produced vegetables
and a wide variety of fruits ranging from jackfruit, mangoes
and plantain bananas. The local Goan and Konkani women sell
ready-to-eat local fish pickles, mango pickles and Goan spices
that form a major ingredient of the unique Goan cuisine.
Haggling is the order at the Mapusa Market of Goa. You will
find customers jostle and elbow each other in their eagerness
to clinch the best buys. From antique thin gummies, glass
baubles, old medicine jars in ceramic and glass, bundles of
beads to chains, bracelets, rings, shell belts and mirrored
bags. There are a number of handicrafts shops from where you
can pick up some keepsakes. There are stalls that sell clothes,
trinkets, exotic Goanese delicacies. The Lambadi women folk
are all smiles as they display their wares that include exquisitely
embroidered bags, purses and dress material. St. Francis bakers
are is a huge presence offering mouth watering plum cake.
You will have to be prepared to bargain for a length of fabric,
a bottle of feni, a mound of prawns or a string of sausage
till you settle upon a price.
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