Stores, Malls or Markets in Swakopmund

This is an improvised market for African crafts located just off the stairs leading to the lighthouse. It is huge and the vendors are rather aggressive in their pricing. The thing to do is to check beforehand how much a similar piece costs in the swanky stores of the endless strip-malls and then go prepared to the market. The street sellers try their best in a very African manner, consistent with what I have seen on the opposite side of the continent, in Egypt, by offering a price way over anything that is negotiable. For example a hypo statuette he was offering for 3500NAD when exactly the same product, probably coming from the same sweat shop, was 400NAD in a store!? When confronted and his arrogance and insolence exposed, the "poor" African salesmen changed the tune and focused on the fact that HE was the artist and we rich tourists should appreciate this. Long story short the hypo went for 250NAD and just because at the end he was rather begging than selling. Here is an authentic African experience!

What to buy: Wooden statues