Best Traditional Marketplace and Bazaar Destinations Worldwide
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Traditional Marketplace and Bazaar Destinations Worldwide I spent three days exploring Istanbul's Grand Bazaar in 2018, returning to specific corridors as I developed sense of which dealers maintained quality and which stocked tourist-grade reproductions. By the third day I'd accepted that traditional bazaar shopping is a skill - bargaining cultures, dealer reputation, quality identification, regional specialty knowledge - that single visits introduce but multiple visits actually develop. Travel built around traditional markets connects you to commercial traditions extending back to medieval and ancient periods, when these structures functioned as global trade hubs. The world's premier traditional markets divide into covered bazaars (Istanbul, Tehran, Damascus, several), open-air markets (many Latin American, various African), specialty markets (Tokyo Tsukiji, numerous food markets), and floating markets (a numb...