Stores, Malls or Markets in Bali

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The street is full of shops selling souvenir to Tee Shirts. You may get some good bargain here if you have the ability and patience to bargain. Sometimes the shopkeeper may tell you to keep the thing you want to buy and look for another shop but don't just loose your patience and may increase a few thousand Rupiah on the last price offered. He may perhaps sell you.

Guarantee: Just don't expect. It's flea market!

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We have been told about Matahari Shopping complex near Kuta beach, so we decided to do some last minute shopping. But to our utter surprise we found the prices are even higher than our own Kolkata shopping complexes, whom we find expensive. They said it s fixed price for all the items in display there. When we converted the priced of the items we wanted to buy it was almost 50% more than our Kolkata prices. For example , we wanted to know the price of a 26" American Tourister , suitcase it was almost Rs.3300/ there in Matahari, but in Kolkata it is available for around Rs.2000/- so we just dropped the idea of shopping in Matahari and went out.

The only consolation of this place is this Javanese girl Rani ( See picture) was humming a Javanese song. We just overheard this beautiful song, we requested her to sing for us, after lots of blushing , she sang it for us! I just forgot to take the video of this song! It was really beautiful!

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Oleh Oleh Khas Bali! You will come across this sign at many places number of times. This means Bali souvenir shop. We were taken to Krishna for shopping on the very first evening at Bali. We felt it was very expensive but later we found , it was better, value for money, no bargain place for Bali souvenir shop. After visiting almost 20 shops and shopping complexes, we felt it was the best, reasonably priced and better than any other shop in Bali.

It's government run place with mostly girls working with very very smiling face and attitude. They all understand English and shall help you even if you are a small customer!

What to buy: I shall recommend go for Bali Soaps, Aromatic body oils, paintings, Sarong and small handicraft items. There are many many things right from food stuff to clothes.

What to pay: Anything between USD$ 1- 100!

Wanna searching Baliness craft, cloths, handmade painting, statue and everything related about traditional craft can be find it here. Pasar Sukawati have all you need, it's more cheap than other place but never forget to bargain.

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I remember back to my first trip to Bali and bargaining to buy a pair of sandals, and I had found out a day or two later that I had paid enough to buy another 10 pairs. Talk about a novice at bargaining, I bet the store owner and her family had Mc Donalds for dinner that night. I am pleased to say my skills have improved and I get a good cheap price now.
But I find I take quite a few hours up if not a full day in shopping and with bargaining sometimes can take a while to get the price you want.
A few years ago I stumbled onto Turikas shop at Melasti Art Market on the corner of Melasti St and Shadadewa St (Garlic Lane) Fixed price and a friendly smile, Turika the owner is a lovely women and very helpful, she gave us each a bottle of cold water and an hour later I had made a new friend just about finished all my shopping. This was too easy and so much better than haggling over a few thousand rupiah and taking half an hour to do it.
From the corner of Melasti St and Shadadewa St (Garlic Lane) walked towards Padma St and the first right turn into a small lane way and about 4 shops down on the left you will. Find Ketuts store which takes up 3 stores and also fixed price and very popular. Next door to Ketuts shop is a small shop selling some kitchen ware, statues and some handicrafts.
From Ketuts if you walk back to Shadadewa St (Garlic Lane) and walk down toward Padma St on the left about 4 or 5 shops down is another fixed price shop called Miss Debbies and if you ask to see the rest of the shop they will take you out back that has more stock .
All these shops sell clothing, handicrafts, handbags and the list goes on. To me a few hours shopping and chatting here is so much easier and works out to be either the same price as bargaining or just a little more expensive but not by much.

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I was one of the interior design field of private sector employees in the city of Semarang Indonesia, in early November I was with a friend's office looking for craft items for our use
at one project using the design theme bali, wowww .... I do not think, it turns out a lot
shops selling crafts now, because at the beginning of the year ie in January
Our previous trip to the island of the gods paintings for interior design looking at one painting gallery in Ubud ...
On the last trip, our mission is to find a statue of a typical native of the island of gods with the help of my friends I delivered in Bali in one of his friends in the area Batubulan gianyar ... wowwww was really awesome once, I will tell the story in full: when we got the place
we were invited to see the results of a statue sculpture that may be appropriate to the design that I created, because of the large statue of me so confused ... I have no other way
namely photographing everything because I have asked my permission to think again before a statue that matches with a design that I created ... after shooting I was invited by my friend to meet employers' chisel statues, and it turns out we were told to meet him at one place it near entertainment namely the implementation of banjo tegaltamu Kecak dance, barong dance, and wayang Bali. Once we arrived at the train turned out to owners tegaltamu chisel the statue effort was a mastermind of the Bali puppets and gamelan players Kecak and Barong dance, I am so honored to meet with him ...in my heart saying: it is true is true of people who have very high artistic soul of this man !!... after that we introduce ourselves, and back to the place of Mr. Rote Adhi, after I know the information I feel he would applaud his efforts, the price level of information will dependent basic material used to manufacture the statue shipment arrived at my city with a safe and whole, available also online booking and payment service via email and pay by credit card in his showroom ... After that we made the journey to a place of recreation that have interesting and challenging experience in the areas of homeland two fly down
cliffs along the coast until the above hotels and villas and return to the starting place to fly earlier, is really one of the experience very FANTASTIC november this beautiful month ... maybe you should try this one on my experience ... views of land, sea, or air on the island of Bali that
so amazing! not to be forgotten ...

Just sharing information, I gave the following address sculpting sculpture Making:

Rote Adhi Bali Stone Carving
Moon Stone Main Street Br. Tegal Guest - Moon Stone
Gianyar - Bali - Indonesia
Phone: +62 361298622, +62 8124686363
email: info@roteadhibali.com
website: www.roteadhibali.com

I Recommended This Shop and be careful you do not be fooled by other stores with similar items

What to buy: statue
handycrafts

What to pay: cash, creditcard availabe

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Batik Popiler II is Bali’s foremost producer and retailer of handmade batik products. Over almost half a century, we have built an international reputation built on exemplary quality, creativity and reverence for this centuries old art form.

Batik Popiler II was founded way back in 1962 by Bapak (Mr) Wayan Matra and Ibu (Mrs) Made Tanjung. In the fifties, Ibu Tanjung was earning her living trading spices. Her work brought her into regular contact with farmers in remote parts of Bali who would always ask her for batik from the neighboring island of Java. Ibu Tanjung would make regular visits there, handpicking the finest examples including exquisite antique pieces, which were much more readily available at the time. Business went well and she opened a batik shop in Bali’s capital Denpasar – the very first of its kind on the island.

What to buy: Batik painting, sarong, woodcarving, pillow case, dress, batik fabric, batik shirt, batik silk, scraves and antique batik

What to pay: 20-200 usd

This Jakarta-based company has some of the most creative shoes I've seen in Bali thus far. Their shoes tend to have lots of enamel accessories on them - ladybugs, starfish, turtles, frogs, etc. The colors are vibrant, the designs are young and fresh. Prices range from about US$35 for slippers to US$100 for more eccentric designs. They also sell bags and enamel jewelry. There are two branches in Seminyak, the other being near Cafe Moka, though the selection isn't as good.