Bodrum Shopping

Hand made sandals
Skilled artisans can make you a pair of snugly fitting leather sandals in the traditional Aegean style. You will find craftsmen in the centre of Bodrum - like Ali Usta and others. You can either order or try one of the pairs they have in stock. Even Mike Jagger has one of these Bodrum hand made sandals of Ali Usta...

What to buy: sandals for a fresh breath of your feet:)

What to pay: that depends what kind of o sandal you wish or how long it takes to produce it... between 40 to 200 Euros.

Every Tuesday there is a cloth market and every Friday, here is a market with fruit and vegetables near Otogar. Traders and farmers come to Bodrum to sell their products. From fresh bread to village yoghurt...

What to buy: This ranges from all kinds of fruits and vegetables to imitation Rolex watches and items of clothing.It is well worth a visit and you should try to bargain before buying anything.

What to pay: It is up to your bargain capacity:)

A "shopping centre" with numerous shops with bags,clothes, food and souveniers. The shops are covered by an ivy trellis, so you can walk around and keep out of the sun whilst browsing.

What to buy: Lots of fake designer ware i.e bags and clothes. but it also has original goods as well. Turkish glassware, multi coloured glass made into vases and dishes. The evil eye and Turkish delight! Jewellery shop selling all kinds of designs in gold and silver.

What to pay: You dont have to spend a lot if you are prepared to haggle with the shop owners!...sometimes just walking away and saying you might be back later, will make them drop their price!!!

The fruits look very inviting and are very tasty. Living in a country in the north I often eat imported fruits but never have the peaches and watermelons in Sweden tasted as the ones in Turkey.

Take the chance and eat a lot of fruit of the season!

In Bodrum there is a big fruit market above the otogar, just in front of a supermarket. The second time I went there it was empty, but probably because it was Sunday and therefore closed.

Once a week there is a street market in Turgutreis and there you can really buy all kinds of things if you're willing to go through the crowd and bargon with the people selling.

What to buy: Well, if you decide going to the street market, a good idea would be to buy something turkish! That could be something of turkish art, like kilim. Killim is a type of a carpet or a rug, usually hand made. The Kilim is a truly remarkable tradition maintained by women of Anatolia for hundreds of generations, dating back nine thousand years. Turkish mothers and daughters maintained this mysterious tradition for the last thousand years as Turkish tribes settled in Anatolia and intermingled with the local population.

What to pay: Depends on what you're bying!

Every Saturday in Turgutreis there is a Market on that is right in the centre. Its huge so you won't miss it. This market has everything from different types of Turkish tea to all kinds of designer clothes like D&G.

What to pay: I'm sure you can haggle for a bargain..!

This is quite a large shop that we were taken to for Gold and Silver Jewellery. There prices were very competitive and I overheard some of the English people saying that it was a lot cheaper than in England. What makes this shop nice is that if you go there on a regular basis i.e. once per annum, you have five years within which you can exchange your jewellery for something new at the same price or else pay in the difference.

Shopping is a delight in BODRUM! Leather goods of all kinds, natural sponges, and the local blue glass beads are among the bargains to be found among the friendly little shops around the narrow, whigt walled streets. Here, you will find woven rugs, carpets, leather sandals, and embroidery; also lovely an doriginal leisure cloths in sonft cotton.
Jewelry is a great pleasure in Bodrum.. ;-)