Shopping in Mashhad
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Carpet Bazaar
The wobbly, wooden-ceilinged old carpet bazaar is more commercial minded but slated for eventual demolition if the shrine’s expansion continues.
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Saroye Saeed
Mashhad is a great place to buy carpets. Saroye Saeed is a multi-unit carpet market which mostly aims at bulk dealers so prices can be excellent. It even has an interesting top-floor repair workshops and remarkably there seems to be no sales pressure.
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Bazaar-e Fash
Bazaar-e Fash, is a multi-unit carpet market mostly aimed at bulk dealers so prices can be excellent. It even has an interesting top-floor repair workshop and remarkably there seems to be no sales pressure.
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Friday Book Market
The Friday book market is good for English-language magazines including the Economist (IR10,000). Blind peddlers outside the Haram near Falakeh Ab sell excellent city maps (IR6000).
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Bazar-e Reza
Upstairs in the 800m-long Bazar-e Reza, jewellery stalls proffer turquoise (mined at nearby Neishabur) but their sales pitch is often more impressive than their gems.
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Mahtab Passaj
Several bookshops stock maps, dictionaries and the odd English book, notably those in Mahtab Passaj.
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