Do you love traveling to places to collect unique and varied souvenirs? Then it's a must to visit Delhi and look around its popular bazaars to shop for items that mark India's history, culture, art, and fashion. If you stay, say in Doha, you simply need to catch a Doha to Delhi flight. Then drop by these 5 top shopping destinations in Delhi.
Dilli Haat
A brainchild of the Delhi government, it looks like a rustic village market full of stall cottages with thatched roofs. Here you can explore folk art performances, cuisines, and more besides a craft bazaar. Whether you want bamboo handicrafts, camel leather tote bags, Phulkari works, Madhubani paintings, or varied gems, beads, and jewelry, you can find them all in this open-air market.
Janpath Market
Check out this market too after your Doha to Delhi flight lands. This shopping destination is popular for its varied Tibetan vintage picks, leather articles, shoes, brassware, colorful imitation jewelry, and Indian artifacts. You can collect stoles, scarves, and jackets for winter and skirts and T-shirts for summer— all at wholesale prices. Try applying your bargaining skills to grab some great deals.
Khan Market
You can get goods from all over India in this lively market in South Delhi. It offers a mix of boutiques, branded outlets, and street vendors selling garments, crockery, cosmetics, new and second-hand books, exotic fruits, and Ayurvedic medicines.
Here you can also bag beautiful inexpensive souvenirs, ornate footwear, flawlessly sculpted stone, and wood sculptures, and intricately designed handicrafts. After your shopping spree, you can drop by a good place to eat, drink and unwind.
Sarojini Market
It's a highly crowded market in Delhi dotted with wholesale sellers offering handicrafts, books, music, fashionable clothes, hookah pipes, and other interesting items. If you want to do some budget-friendly shopping, you must visit this thriving bazaar. You're sure to fill your bags with amazing finds. You can gift some of them to your loved ones after returning on a flight to Doha. Sarojini is also popular as a flea market in Delhi and is a mecca for bargain hunters.
Chandni Chowk
It's one of the oldest shopping regions in Delhi that survives to date. Here narrow passages and winding alleys lead to a limitless stream of shops.
The market is split into several small bazaars like the Paranthe Wali Gali, Daryaganji, Chor Bazaar, Tilak Bazaar, Khari Baoli, Chatta Chowk, and Katra Neel. Each of these markets specializes in specific types of products including used books, kitchen equipment, hardware, electronics, and fabrics. Besides, from various handicrafts to precious stones, silverware, and antiques, you can find anything here that your heart desires.
Chandni Chowk remains crowded always. So, it's best to take a cycle rickshaw to cut through the crowd in the lanes and streets after deboarding your Doha to Delhi flight.
Make sure to visit these markets in Delhi and shop for your heart's content to take back home some invaluable souvenirs when you return on your Delhi to Doha flight.
