Shopping in Malawi
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Craft Market
There's a craft market outside the Old Town post office, where vendors sell everything from trinket woodcarvings, basketware and jewellery to traditional Malawi chairs. If you go late in the day you're likely to get a better deal.
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Central Bookshop
For a much wider selection than TBS, visit this bookshop. It stocks stationery, books and guides about Malawi, local-language dictionaries and a good range of novels by local writers. There's also a pleasant coffee shop.
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Old Town Mall
Old Town Mall houses a small corridor of shops including African Habitat, selling a variety of African arts and crafts, and Central Africana with an impressive selection of decorative and antique maps well worth framing.
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Crossroads Complex
Crossroads Complex is Lilongwe's newest shopping area and houses banks, a swanky hotel, minigolf, a variety of upscale shops, supermarkets and services, and a branch of the South African Steers.
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Bookmart
An excellent secondhand bookshop with a wide range of recent bestsellers, classics, and travel books. It also has a small coffee bar so you can have a latte while you browse.
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Municipal Market
The modern buildings of the Municipal Market give it a more formal feel than the hectic market in Lilongwe; it's still worth a visit even if you don't want to buy anything.
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Central Africana
Has a diverse selection of travel, history and nature books. It also does a nice line in leather-bound, secondhand Africana books and old colonial-style maps.
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PTC Hypermarket
Near the City Centre Shopping Centre is the large PTC Hypermarket , where you can get everything from imported South African biscuits to camping supplies.
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City Centre Shopping Centre
City Centre Shopping Centre , off Independence Dr, is a collection of buildings containing shops, travel agents, restaurants, a bank and a post office.
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Peoples Supermarket
The main Peoples Supermarket sells food and other goods, much of it imported from South Africa or Europe and sold at similar prices.
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Kandodo Supermarket
Cheaper but more limited supplies (compared with the range at Peoples Supermarket) can be bought at Kandodo Supermarket .
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Wildlife Society of Malawi Giftshop
At the Heritage Centre. Specialises in books about natural history and national parks; its prices are very reasonable.
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Kandodo Supermarket
There are decent supermarkets all over the city. Kandodo Supermarket has more limited and cheaper stock.
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TBS Bookshop
There's a TBS bookshop in town and a smaller one at the Mount Soche Hotel on Glyn Jones Rd.
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Shoprite Supermarket
There are decent supermarkets all over the city. Shoprite in Old Town has the best range.
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Nico Shopping Centre
Nico Shopping Centre has a bookshop, travel agency, pharmacy and several other shops.
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Central Africana Bookshop
Specialises in antiquarian and specialist African titles, plus old prints and maps.
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TBS Bookshop
Sells international and local newspapers and magazines, and some paperback novels.
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Central Bookshop
Sells a surprisingly good stock of African literature and local guidebooks.
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Craft Stalls
There are very good craft stalls outside the Peoples Supermarket.
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Shoprite Supermarket
There's a huge Shoprite Supermarket a few kilometres out of town.
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