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Mombasa

Shopping in Mombasa

  1. A

    City Bookshop

    Bookshop.

    reviewed

  2. B

    City Grocers

    A well-stocked shop.

    reviewed

  3. C

    A-1 Supermarket

    Reasonable central supermarket.

    reviewed

  4. D

    Barrels Wines & Spirits

    Convenient central off-licence.

    reviewed

  5. E

    Mombasa Tailoring Mart

    This place is recommended for tailored African-style shirts and full safari suits.

    reviewed

  6. F

    Umed Mode

    Cheaper than some but still reliable, if you catch the right special offer you can get a safari suit really cheap.

    reviewed

  7. G

    Nakumatt Supermarket

    Close to the Likoni ferry, with an astounding selection of provisions, drinks, consumer goods and hardware items - just in case you need a TV, bicycle or lawnmower to go with your groceries.

    reviewed

  8. Akamba Handicraft Industry Cooperative Society

    This cooperative employs an incredible 10,000 people from the local area. It's also a nonprofit organisation and produces very fine animal woodcarving. Kwa Hola/Magongo matatus run right past the gates from the Kobil petrol station on Jomo Kenyatta Ave. Many coach tours from Mombasa also stop here.

    reviewed

  9. H

    Main Market

    Mombasa's dilapidated 'covered' market building, formerly the Mackinnon Market, is packed with stalls selling fresh fruit and vegetables. Roaming produce carts also congregate in the streets around it, and dozens of miraa (leafy twigs and shoots chewed as a stimulant) sellers join the fray when the regular deliveries come in.

    reviewed

  10. Bombolulu Workshops & Cultural Centre

    This nonprofit organisation produces crafts of a very high standard and gives vocational training to hundreds of physically disabled people. You can visit the workshops and showroom for free to buy jewellery, clothes, carvings and other crafts, or enter the cultural centre to tour mock-ups of traditional homesteads in the grounds, where various activities take place. Bombolulu matatus run here from Msanifu Kombo St, and Bamburi services in either direction also pass the centre.

    The turn-off for the centre is on the left about 3km north of Nyali bridge.

    reviewed

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  12. I

    Bahati Book Centre

    Bookshop.

    reviewed

  13. J

    Books First

    Well-stocked bookshop outlet with separate café, in the Nakumatt supermarket.

    reviewed