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Botswana

Shopping in Botswana

  1. A

    Spar Supermarket

    If you're self-catering, Maun boasts several astoundingly well stocked supermarkets, such as Spar Supermarket. All supermarkets sell fresh meat, fruit and vegetables, and have bakeries that sell fresh bread, sandwiches and takeaway salads. There's another Spar Supermarket in the Ngami Centre.

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  2. B

    Score Supermarket

    If you're self-catering, Maun boasts several astoundingly well stocked supermarkets, such as Score Supermarket. All supermarkets sell fresh meat, fruit and vegetables, and have bakeries that sell fresh bread, sandwiches and takeaway salads.

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  3. C

    Shop-Rite Supermarket

    If you're self-catering, Maun boasts several astoundingly well stocked supermarkets, such as Shop-Rite. All supermarkets sell fresh meat, fruit and vegetables, and have bakeries that sell fresh bread, sandwiches and takeaway salads.

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  4. D

    The Mall

    During the day, several stalls along the Mall sell reasonable carvings and tacky souvenirs at negotiable prices. But it's cheaper if you go straight to the source by visiting the nearby workshops in Oodi, Gabane and Thamaga.

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  5. E

    Botswanacraft - Airport

    Botswana's largest craft emporium sells traditional souvenirs from all over the country including weavings from Oodi and pottery from Gabane and Thamaga. If you're a deficient at bargaining, fear not - prices are fixed.

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    Botswanacraft - The Mall

    Botswana's largest craft emporium sells traditional souvenirs from all over the country including weavings from Oodi and pottery from Gabane and Thamaga. If you're a deficient at bargaining, fear not - prices are fixed.

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  7. Botswanacraft - Warehouse

    Botswana's largest craft emporium sells traditional souvenirs from all over the country including weavings from Oodi and pottery from Gabane and Thamaga. If you're a deficient at bargaining, fear not - prices are fixed.

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  8. G

    Craft Centre

    In the Power Station complex, this friendly place makes and sells pottery, paintings and handmade paper products (from elephant dung, among other things!), and regularly features exhibitions of other arts and crafts.

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  9. H

    Bushman Craft Shop

    Although it caters more to travellers who need a last-minute souvenir before catching a flight out of town, this small shop near the airport terminal has a decent range of books, videos and woodcarvings.

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  10. I

    Jewel of Africa

    This attractive shop offers an eclectic range of carvings, sketches, shawls and other assorted African knick-knacks. Although not everything is made in Botswana, prices here are reasonable (and fixed).

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  12. J

    African Arts & Images

    Next to the Bushman Craft Shop on the road near the airport terminal, this upmarket shop has an impressive range of books about Botswana, photographic prints of the delta and locally made pottery.

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  13. K

    Craft Workshop

    This small complex of shops sells crafts and souvenirs, and also plays host to a flea market on the morning of the last Sunday of each month. To get there take the 'Broadhurst Route 3' combi.

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  14. L

    Botswana Book Centre

    This bookshop offers the best range of books about Botswana in the country. It also sells English-language novels and local, South African and international magazines and newspapers.

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  15. M

    General Trading Company

    This large mauve building next to the Shop-Rite supermarket sells a huge range of high-priced safari gear, books, videos, and locally produced jewellery, pottery, drums and baskets.

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  16. N

    Riverwalk Mall

    Gaborone is home to a number of Western-style malls that contain bars, restaurants, shops, supermarkets, takeaways, banks, office parks and petrol stations.

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  17. O

    African Mall

    Gaborone is home to a number of Western-style malls that contain bars, restaurants, shops, supermarkets, takeaways, banks, office parks and petrol stations.

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    Broadhurst Mall

    Gaborone is home to a number of Western-style malls that contain bars, restaurants, shops, supermarkets, takeaways, banks, office parks and petrol stations.

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  19. Q

    South Ring Mall

    Gaborone is home to a number of Western-style malls that contain bars, restaurants, shops, supermarkets, takeaways, banks, office parks and petrol stations.

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  20. R

    Exclusive Books

    This reader-recommended bookshop has a wide range of literature, nonfiction and travel books.

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  21. S

    Botswana Book Centre

    Sells newspapers and magazines, guidebooks, wildlife guides, coffee-table books and novels.

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  23. T

    Kingston's Bookshop

    Has a huge array of novels, postcards and books and maps about Botswana and the region.

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  24. U

    J&B Books

    Located above Woolworths, this place sells new and secondhand novels in English.

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  25. Kingfisher Trading Co

    This simple shop sells African curios at fixed (though reasonable) prices.

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