|
World > Asia > Nepal >
Kathmandu
|
 |
|
|
|
Amrita Craft Collection |
This is a good place to start, with a broad collection of crafts and
clothing. Subtract 20% from its fixed prices and you get a good
benchmark for what you should aim to pay on the street if you don't
mind haggling. The branch across the road has the larger selection.
|
|
Aroma Garden |
Thamel's sweetest-smelling shop is a good one-stop shop for incense,
essential oils, soaps and almost anything else that smells great.
|
|
Babar Mahal Revisited |
This unique complex of old Rana palace outbuildings, originally
built in 1919, has been redeveloped to house a warren of chic
clothes shops, designer galleries, handicraft shops and even a wine
shop, as well as a couple of top-end restaurants and bars. It's
aimed squarely at local expats and wealthy locals so prices are as
high as the quality. It's southeast of the city near the Singh
Durbar government offices.
|
|
Bluebird Supermarkets |
Has a wide variety of goods. There's also a branch by the main
bridge across the Bagmati River to Patan.
|
|
Dharmapala Thangka Center |
Down an arcade, off Durbar Marg, this is a showroom for a local
school of thangka painting.
|
|
Ganesh Photo Lab |
Ganesh Photo Lab, in an alley southwest of Durbar Sq, is an unlikely
looking but reputedly good place for B&W processing.
|
|
Hicola |
Hicola, Lazimpat is fairly reliable and can handle colour prints and
E-6 or Ektachrome slides. Mounted slide processing will cost you
around Rs400 for 36 slides; prints costs Rs360 for 36 photos. There
si anothe branch offering the same prices at Tridevi Marg in Thamel.
|
|
Mahaguthi |
For general handicrafts such as handmade paper, ceramics and
woodwork - much of it made by disadvantaged or minority groups - the
best places are the showrooms of the nonprofit development
organisations that are based in the Kopundol district of Patan.
|
|
Read more about New Tibet Book Store |
Paper ParkOne of the dozens of shops in Thamel that sell hand-made
paper products, Paper Park is one of the better options.
|
|
Read more about Paper Park |
Phapa Chengreshi Thangka Painting School
You can see thangkas being painted on the spot at this school in
Thamel.
|
|
|
