Shopping in The North
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Mercado Municipal Adolfo Lisboa
This imposing cast-iron city market building opened in 1882, a copy in miniature of Paris’s famed Les Halles market. Although the art-nouveau ironwork was imported from Europe, the place has acquired a distinctly Amazonian character. In and around the market, you can purchase just about anything, from leather hats and índio crafts to bizarre fruits and traditional medicines.
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Cerâmica Mbara-yo
This is the modest shop of ceramicist Carlos Amaral, who combines traditional Aruã and Marajoara ceramic traditions with award-winning results. You can have a short tour of the workshop to see how the pieces are made. Numerous small, affordable pieces are for sale, and each has a particular tale or significance behind it. It’s between Ruas 3 and 4.
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Mercado Ver-o-Peso
This and the surrounding area is probably the most interesting place to shop, whether for pants or piranha or anything in between. There are no set hours, but there is something interesting to see from 5:30am to 8:30pm every day. However, you should be especially wary of pickpockets and assailants in the early and late hours.
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Artes Brasil
The best items here are carved wooden animals, from pink dolphins to peacock bass, and ranging from keychain size to several feet long. The rest is fairly predictable artesenato, but still worth perusing. It faces the Mercado Central, a short distance from the railroad museum.
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APITU
A small but authentic selection of art and jewelry of the Tumucumaque indigenous people who come from the mountainous borders of Amapá, Pará and Suriname. Not to be confused with the hugely (and hugely disappointing) state-run handicrafts store next door.
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Amazonas Ecoshop
Smallish store with art, jewelry and other gift items. The selection is a bit lacking, but most items are made in the region and certified ‘fair trade.’ An in-store coffee shop has appealing coffees and pastries.
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Artesanato da Amazônia
Once a terrific store for folk art; the good stuff here is getting buried by a growing amount of predictable kitsch. But you can still find some quality items, especially indigenous masks and handmade weapons.
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Foto Nascimento
You've got a jungle trip tomorrow and that new 2GB memory chip you bought online isn't £$&%!! formatting. You can buy a replacement here - and other photo supplies - but don't count on eBay prices.
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Galeria Amazônica
Right on Praça São Sebastião, this is Manaus’s top shop for genuine-article Amazonian handiwork, including gorgeous basketwork, pottery and folk art. Prices are on the high side, but so is the quality.
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Boulevard Shopping
Belém’s latest, biggest mall is a modern cement, steel and glass structure, brilliantly lit at night, and boasting top-tier clothing, electronics and department stores as well as a cinema complex.
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Artíndia
Sells authentic and inexpensive índio crafts at its main shop, at the end of an arcade, in the center of town, and from a kiosk (open from noon to midnight) in Estação das Docas.
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Shopping Pátio Belém
The former ‘Iguatemi Shopping’ has a new name and much more highbrow orientation, with upscale shops, from jewelry to electronics to designer clothing, spread over four floors.
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Mercado Municipal Adolfo Lisboa
Near Porto Manaus Moderno, the Mercado Municipal Adolfo Lisboa is good for inexpensive crafts and T-shirts, cheap stuffed piranhas and natural medicines.
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Arariba
Arguably the best indigenous art store in the Amazon, with items ranging from inexpensive necklaces to museum-quality masks and ceremonial figures. Credit cards accepted.
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Iguatemi Shopping
A modern shopping center with designer clothes, bookshops and music stores. Most shops are open from 10:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday, and from 14:00 to 22:00 on Sunday.
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Casa das Redes
For hammocks, head to any of numerous Casa das Redes on Rua Rocha dos Santos and the side streets (or the street vendors around Praça Tenreiro Aranha).
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Natural Ervas
One of a handful of shops on Rua Gaspar Viana that specialize in natural Amazonian medicines, good for everything from dandruff to cancer.
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Feira de Artesanato
A large crafts fair that has the city’s biggest range of attractive artwork, and a lot of it is homemade. It’s especially busy on Sundays.
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Centro de Artesanato Caxabmú
Two city blocks have been designated as pedestrian only, and are lined with stalls selling everything from handicrafts to cashew nuts.
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Fruit and Vegetable Market
On weekends head to the fruit and vegetable market alongside Belém’s cemetery for fresh produce.
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Carrefour
The biggest and best downtown supermarket. Also a good place to buy batteries, flashlights and rain ponchos.
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Crafts Stands
Numerous Crafts Stands sell mostly identical souvenir-type items in Praça Tenreiro Aranha.
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Clio
Belém's best English-language selection, including guidebooks.
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Nobel
Occasionally stocks English-language guidebooks.
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Mercado dos Produtos da Floresta
All-natural medicines, oils, shampoos and more.
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