69 city guides · 3-day shopping itineraries
3-day city guides covering local markets, boutiques, design districts and the best souvenirs.
From Wuse Market's produce aisles to Ceddi Plaza boutiques and the Abuja Arts & Crafts Village, wher…
From Makola's wax-print aisles to Osu's designer studios and the craft compounds of East Legon.…
Pit-loom textile markets, fair-trade silk workshops, Bole design studios and spice stalls that vacuu…
From the 3,000 stalls of Souk El Had to women's argan cooperatives, Talborjt's Berber craft workshop…
From the gold alleys of Mansheya to San Stefano's sea-view mall, with antique hunting on Rue Fouad i…
Covered spice halls, arcaded colonial streets, Kabyle silversmiths and the hilltop concept stores of…
From the sprawling artisan stalls of La Digue to Analakely's tin-roof market halls and the wood-carv…
Medeber's scrap-metal forges, Harnet Avenue's 1930s boutiques and the woven baskets, teff, coffee an…
Backstrap looms, factory-outlet cotton, Zege forest coffee and the covered basket rows of the Amhara…
Mud-cloth workshops, Tuareg silversmiths and the tailor stalls of Africa's loudest textile capital, …
From the covered Ottoman souq and the Gold Street jewellers to Cyrenaican dates, Bedouin silver and …
Farm-stall preserves, hand-spun Karakul wool, Basotho blankets and Loch Logan's boutique strip, mapp…
From the fabric halls of Marché Total to Bacongo's suit boutiques and Poto-Poto's painting studios.…
Khan el-Khalili's medieval alleys, the tentmakers' hand-stitched panels, Zamalek boutiques and the g…
Saturday markets in converted mills, Cape wine-country ceramics, township beadwork co-ops and the de…
From the babouche lanes of the Old Medina to Racine's design galleries and the Atlantic-front Morocc…
Handloom blankets on Rue Targui, filigree silver at Souk el-Hots, and goat-cheese sellers in the Pla…
From the chaotic thread-and-bead labyrinth of Marché HLM to Almadies concept stores selling Dakar Fa…
Makonde blackwood carvers, Tingatinga canvases, six-yard kitenge bolts and peninsula boutiques — bar…
Grain-market haggling in Madukani, six-yard wax prints on Kuu Street, VETA workshop carvings and fac…
From wax-print bolts in Marché Congo to Bonapriso concept stores and the carved-mask stalls of March…
From Warwick Junction's nine trading markets to Station Drive's design warehouses and the coastal ma…
Spice souks and coppersmiths' hammers, ceramic ateliers in Ain Nokbi, and the Mellah's goldsmiths — …
Main Mall vendor tables, Botswana-label boutiques in the big malls, and the Oodi and Gabane workshop…
Carve-your-own alabaster in Nazlet El-Semman, hand-pressed papyrus in Harraniya, perfume oils on Pyr…
From Mbare's cooperative craft sheds to Avondale's designer boutiques and the granite yards of Chitu…
From the spice stalls of El Dahar's old market to El Gouna's designer quay, with the gold souk and V…
From the 16-day Oje cloth cycle to Gbagi's wholesale lace warehouses, Agbeni bead stringers and the …
From Saturday morning market halls in Newtown to Rosebank's African trade tables and 44 Stanley's co…
From the sprawling stalls of Nakasero to Kololo's designer ateliers and craft villages selling banan…
Wholesale wax prints, hand-beaten brass, overnight kaftan tailors and craft shops that will pack a c…
From the labyrinth of Omdurman Souq to Afra Mall's air-conditioned aisles, hunting silver, ebony, to…
From the roaring aisles of Zando ya Kinshasa to Texaf Bilembo's gallery shop and the malachite curio…
From Bantama's enamelware aisles to Bonwire's royal looms, Ahodwo boutiques and the carving sheds of…
From the 10,000-stall labyrinth of Balogun to Lekki's concept boutiques, hand-dyed adire in Ikorodu …
Ebony carving sheds in Quartier Louis, six-yard wax cuts at Oloumi, and okoumé souvenirs from Nzeng-…
From the sprawling artisan stalls of Benfica to Talatona's air-conditioned malls and the capulana cl…
From the sprawling stalls of Marché Mzee Laurent-Désiré Kabila to malachite carvers, kitenge tailors…
From the chaos of Soweto Market to Kabwata's carvers, Lusaka's chitenge halls, copper workshops and …
From the covered lanes of the Old Market to West Bank alabaster workshops and fixed-price fair-trade…
Swahili produce markets, Akamba woodcarvers, Italian-run boutiques and Gede village co-ops along Ken…
From the tin-roofed craft rows of Praça 25 de Junho to Polana's designer ateliers and the cashew-and…
From the cedar-roofed haggling lanes of the Medina to Gueliz concept stores and the warehouse studio…
Highway souks, gram-weighed silver, Bedouin beadwork and Port Ghalib's marina arcade — the Red Sea's…
Bakaara's spice alleys, Hamar Weyne's goldsmiths, Zoubaida's tailors and the new mall counters of Ma…
From Marikiti's spice-scented stalls to Bombolulu's artisan workshops and Nyali's air-conditioned ma…
Haggle for Sahel pottery in the medina souq, browse marina boutiques, and hunt olive-wood and Sidi B…
Bargaining for Toubou silver, Kanembu leather and hand-dyed boubous across the capital's markets, ta…
Roving Maasai markets, women's bead cooperatives, Westlands design containers and the Ngong Road mit…
From the veil stalls of Sebkha to courtyard silversmiths and the camel-leather yards on the Rosso ro…
From the copper alleys of M'dina J'dida to Es Sénia's malls and the record shop that gave raï its la…
Wholesale Sahel markets, backyard bronze foundries and handwoven cotton, priced by the people who ma…
Xhosa beadwork in Central, independent design on Stanley Street, and the Eastern Cape's biggest mall…
Wax-print stacks at Mile 3, Ikwerre pottery and cane furniture on Aba Road, and Rivers State's tailo…
From the 1828 Central Market's spice alleys to Caudan's craft ateliers, cane-basket weavers, and the…
Free-zone bargains, downtown cotton merchants and a ferry ride to Port Fouad's rug looms.…
Hand-forged Beja daggers, sesame-oil soap, Suakin coral relics and Deim el-Arab spice stalls across …
From the sprawling chaos of Sucupira to clifftop Plateau boutiques, coconut-shell jewellery workshop…
Saturday farmers' markets, Hazelwood design boutiques, Menlyn megamalls and beadwork studios across …
From the carpet-weavers' arcade of Rue des Consuls to Agdal's concept boutiques and the pottery kiln…
Trade-by-trade souk lanes inside the Ksar walls, fixed-price artisan showrooms, and the boutique ave…
From the 400-metre lanes of the Old Market to SOHO Square's designer plaza and the local malls where…
From the fondouks of the Medina to Ville Nouvelle concept stores and the Thursday Berber market at S…
Covered medina arcades, spice and gold lanes, coppersmith workshops and the Gargaresh retail strip —…
Perfume weighed by the gram, felt-cap workshops, La Marsa concept stores and the fixed-price artisan…
Gold Rush warehouse courtyards, gas-lit alleys, Saturday artisan markets and hand-knit Cowichan swea…
From Okahandja woodcarvers and Herero doll makers to Swakara boutiques, Namibian gemstone cutters an…
From the raffia-stall labyrinth of Mokolo to air-conditioned Douala Mall boutiques, hand-carved Bami…
Spice bazaars, kanga bolts, palm-leaf baskets and Stone Town design ateliers — plus the markets wher…