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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 Market in 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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