Shopping in South Africa, what and where to buy

When it comes to shopping, South Africa is a small mecca for tourists, who find good bargain opportunities especially when it comes to African craftsmanship: carved wooden objects, colored beaded jewelery and brightly colored fabrics, ethnic garments, carpets, vases, terracotta bowls and much more.

What to buy in South Africa
What to buy in South Africa

In South Africa gold and diamonds are interesting, since we are in one of their homelands. The only advice is to buy from authorized retailers and centers, which give guarantees of authenticity, avoiding the risk of cheating and unpleasant episodes.

African craftsmanship: carved wooden objects, colored beaded jewelery and brightly colored fabrics, ethnic garments, carpets, vases, terracotta bowls and much more.

Another interesting chapter is that of sports clothing and, in particular, safari clothing, useful and of great quality, for venturing into wildlife parks. In each of the main cities there are very well organized shopping centres, which remain open until very late in the afternoon, some even in the evening (for example, at Johannesburg, the Sandton, Rosebank and Melrose Arch centres) allowing you to shop in peace and offering even the laziest a vast range of goods and services.

South Africans are a people who love to have fun and there is no city or country that does not have its own theatre, cinema, piano bar, dance clubs and live music, as well as a dense crowd of restaurants and inns for all tastes and budgets.

Shopping in South AfricaShopping in South Africa

Even public gardens and city green spaces host moments of escape and socialization, such as, for example, the Kirstenbosch gardens in Cape Town, which, every Sunday in summer, host very pleasant concerts.

At sunset, an artist or a musical group performs in front of thousands of people, mostly families and groups, who meet here for snacks and picnics.

It is an opportunity to listen to a vast musical repertoire (groups and soloists are always different), which ranges from classical to jazz, from folk to pop, from marimba to disco dance.

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