Shopping Paradise in Red Sea

Not like Mecca and Medina, known for its rich tourist areas and historical sites, city of Jeddah is more to offer something that many people hunted, which is a shopping paradise. Wealthiest cities in the Middle East and Western Asia is indeed known as the trade and shopping area.

One area that could become a haven for the hobby shop is Balad. Besides having a high-class shopping center offering the latest products from leading fashion brands from Milan and Paris, the old town of Jeddah is also packed with traditional traders and the open market that offer various fashion products and souvenirs with a relatively cheap price.

At night, this shopping center crowded by visitors. Density shopping center located in the Corniche area of this peak during the pilgrimage season, because pilgrims usually took time to come to Jeddah to buy fruit hand. Carpet, abaya (traditional women's clothes black Arabic), various brand perfume with unique packaging, prayer beads, prayer rugs, watches, various leather products, hood, Pasmina, until hena eye shadow and can be purchased at the shopping center every prayer time arrives It closed some time.

Most of the goods sold in this market is imported from other countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and of course China. Almost all products sold in the souvenir market Balad, including beads and calligraphy, are imported from China. Imported goods are sold on average wholesale and the price is very cheap. Unit price of stone beads of different colors or just one riyal around Rp4.000 and unit price of various leather wallet is only between 10 to 15 riyal riyal, or if we want to replace it with the rupiah exchange rate, only about Rp40.000 to Rp45.000 only.

In Balad, the selling price of each product varies according to the quality and negotiable. Some traders also speak Indonesian, though limited in numbers so that visitors from Indonesia who could not speak Arabic can still make a bargain price.

Of all the shop in Balad, Ali Cheap Shop is a shop that most pilgrims visited Indonesia. Despite the name Ali Cheap, but the price of goods sold in this store is relatively more expensive than the price of goods in other stores. Simple abaya in another store sells 35 to 40 riyal riyal, or about Rp100.000-Rp120.000, Ali Cheap stores offered a price of 60 riyal, much more expensive because you have to spend around Rp180.000. Indonesian pilgrims average prefer to shop at this store because the transaction can be done with the Indonesian language. All the servants in this store of Indonesia, one shop owner speaks fluent Indonesian.

In addition to Balad, cheap shopping center in the region also Haraj Al-Sawarikh, a long market stall that sells various new and used goods. Carpets, chandeliers, glassware, cosmetics, electronic goods, and souvenirs sold in the region. If they are good bargain and choose, visitors can get good stuff at cheap prices here.

While in Tahlia Street, in the middle of Jeddah City, visitors can shop at shopping centers and boutiques that sell products world-renowned fashion such as Prada, Gucci and Giorgio Armani. The price of hundreds to thousands of riyal per item. Even the Indonesian citizens who had long lived there said, if you want to spend a month salary in a matter of minutes, please stop by Tahlia Street.

And if you choose to purchase electronic products, Falestin Street place. On either side of this street lined shops that sell various brand mobile phones, cameras, tape players and digital versions of music format MP3, MP4, and MP5, and the laptop and its accessories. With a relatively cheaper price than the price of electronic goods in the country. Well, now it's time to choose a suitable travel agent, to take you to enjoy the red sea shore while satisfying your shopping desires