Shopping in South Africa

It's a well known fact that South Africans have a passion for shopping, so whilst you're away in South Africa, make the most of the chance to shop until you drop. With all things from large shopping malls, to specialty boutiques, to flea and arts and craft markets, you'll find abundance of ways to splash that holiday cash.

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If you're finding for a home away from home while your time in South Africa, then head to your nearest shopping mall. You will truly be able to spend entire days trawling the shop in these immense complexes, picking up abundance of souvenirs to bring back with you. One of the largest of these shopping centres, the immense Gateway just exterior Durban, spans a heavy 37 acres, meaning only one thing - a lot of shops! Rivalling Durban's shopping centre, is the Victoria and Alfred waterfront in Cape Town, which is home to over 400 shop that will suit people with the highest to the bottom of budgets. If you're going shopping while you're in South Africa any one of the 24 major shopping malls is well worth a visit.

Find the Finery

If you're worried that the souvenirs that you buy in South Africa will come to be out-dated as the fashions change, then perhaps you might like to steer away from the clothing side of shopping and head towards the jewellery side instead. Known for its diamond, platinum and gold mining capabilities, South Africa is unsurprisingly a astounding place to refresh your jewellery box. There are abundance of preeminent jewellers in South Africa but for a real experience, head to the Premier solitaire Mine at Cullinan, not too far from Pretoria. Here, you can sit back and relax with a chilled glass of wine, as a designer sketches ideas for your piece of jewellery. You will even be able to see the mine that the stone used in your piece came from. Visiting the mine is a real contact and you'll end up with a piece of jewellery that you'll treasure forever.

Mince nearby the Markets

Whether you're into haberdashery, bits and bobs and bric-a-bac, or unique, hand-made souvenir pieces you'll find what you're finding for at one of South Africa's markets. From smaller arts and craft markets, to the larger and more keen flea markets you'll find in the bigger cities, the atmosphere is something that simply cannot be recreated everywhere else. There are many markets to witness but the ones that the avid store shopper will enjoy the most are unarguably the Rosebank store in Johannesburg, which sells an immense range of imported African arts, crafted pieces and fabrics, and Cape Town's legendary Green store Square. This marketplace is simply brimming with handcrafted goods, along with clothing, jewellery and shoes. For authentic South African wares, the markets are the best place to do your shopping.

So if you're worried that you might not be able to fit your weekly splurge into your holiday in South Africa, then rest easy. There is abundance of shopping to be done, and you will be able to bring home all things from the most fashionable, to the finest, to the most contemporary of souvenirs.

Shopping in South Africa

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