A nice addition to the rest in Thailand are hiking shopping. Shopping on Samui allows the tourist buy the right product and chat with local population. Pre-correspondence acquaintance with the main points sales will save a lot of time and make the process making purchases less tedious and more productive.
In the article we will tell and show on the map the most popular and major stores and markets on Koh Samui, as well as characterize, the recently opened Central Festival shopping center, which is paradise for shopping on the island.
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Review of large stores on Samui
If there are a lot of small kiosks and markets on Koh Samui, then large ones Thai supermarkets can not boast of their abundance. None however, shopping on Samui is completely satisfying farang. World wide a well-known network of supermarkets Tesco Samui opened three shopping center. One of them operates on Nathon, the other is between Chaweng and Bophut, the third welcomes visitors on Lamai Beach.
Tesco Store on Lamai
The second most prominent is Big C. Huge the shop on Samui consists of many sections, whose products vary in purpose. Here the buyer can stock up on home goods and clothing, buy quality jewelry and trinkets for relatives waiting for the house. Demanded goods are mobile devices, gadgets, every possible technique. To power shopaholics provided separate area with wifi. Also in Big C there is a hairdresser.
Big C store on the ring road between Chaweng and Bophut
A small wholesale shop in Samui is Makro. Products in it are sold at the lowest prices. There is an economical selling point in front of Tesco. To commit small purchases foreigners can in shops Seven-Eleven and Family Mart.
The Makro store, also located between the beaches of Chaweng and Bophut
Central Festival on Samui
Brand new shopping center Central Festival opened in March 2014 in the center of the beach Chaweng. It has three floors and 90 000sq.m. of trade passages. At the moment This is a very popular place for shopping lovers. Here are the visitors can find many brand boutiques – Camel, Adidas, AIIZ, Esprit, Jim Thomsoni and others, as well as restaurant chains and bars such as Auntie Anne’s, Black Canyon Coffee, Haagen-Daz and that’s not all.
Eschev Central Festivalna Samui can find sportswear boutiques and the corresponding inverter, everyday wear and various accessories, audio and video equipment and more. By the way, the photo at the very top of the article made inside of this particular shopping center.
Where to buy jewelry: jewelry stores on Samui
Samui shopping is impossible submit without visiting Samui Lapidary. Large a jewelry store is located on the ring road that runs into the northern part of the island. The varied local range is not You name it – the same model is presented in different sizes and with variations of stones. Another interesting jewelry store you can found in the southeast of the island, called, bowtiful Samui (on the map).
Visiting the fine shops on Samui, lovers of expensive jewelry can buy for 100 thousand rubles white gold and diamonds. More affordable prices are set to wired silver, stones of precious and semiprecious groups. Visitors to jewelry stores on Samui is offered a certificate for gold.
A walk through Samui’s markets
An integral part of shopping in Samui represents a march to markets (about how to bargain in markets in Thailand, read in a separate article). All markets on the island divided into food, vegetable and souvenir. Attention deserves and fish market on Samui district Bangrak, who is the eldest among them. Fresh fish and nutritious seafood on fish market counters Koh Samui comes from sailors hurrying from the night or morning fishing. Any species of fish, small and large crustaceans, shrimp, solid crabs – all this is an assortment of fish markets on samui. King prawns sold at the rate of 250 baht / kg, others – less than 200 baht.
An assortment of Samui markets Foods are located in the following points in Thailand:
- Nathon;
- Muslim village, adjacent to Lamai beach;
- on Bophut near the monument to the Big Buddha (with the help of ferry buyers arrive here from Koh Tao and Koh Islands Phangan);
- on the ring road, next to which is the right turn in side of the fishing village.
Fair Walkin Street on Samui
This is not the wrong street of debauchery Volkin Street, located in Pattaya is a lively meeting place for traders artisans and buyers, striking an abundance of smells, tastes and color gleaming in a crowd of people. Between 5 and 10 pm Volkin Street on Samui becomes exclusively pedestrian area. She has her goods in the form of clothes, drinks, food and souvenirs are briskly offered by merchants. Also appears on the street an improvised scene from which music and songs can be heard on English language.
Volkin on the different beaches of the island Street on Samui is held on a certain day of the week:
- Chong Mon – Wednesday;
- Maenam – Thursday;
- Bophut – Friday;
- Lamai – Sunday;
- Chaweng – Mon-Sat
On Chaweng Beach, the fair is noisy every day except Friday and sundays. Find this lively plot is easy, because the traders always located on the main ring road. Orientation facilitates the accumulation of people and vehicles whose movement regulate the police.
Delicious corners of Samui – fruit markets
Fruit markets on Samui are represented by three points:
- Chaweng Market, standing on Beach Road in Chaweng. Sellers gather by noon and work till night.
- Lamai Market. Reasonable prices and relatively small the territory allows the buyer to quickly determine the appropriate item. The market is open from 5 pm until late at night. Find him can be on the main ring road nearby with the establishment Ayudhya Bank and a gas station.
- Laem Din. This fruit market is adjacent to Boxing Stadium – the famous part of the island on which Thai compete boxers.
All fruit markets on Samui are amazing. an assortment of exotic fruits. He is so rich that even seasoned voyages are lost in choice. Spiny durian, mango, jackfruit, mangosteen, coconut, rambutan, salak – a list of goodies can continue indefinitely.
Latex shop, snake farm with unique drugs on snake venom-based, natural cosmetics and tea shop, jewelery store with products from natural pearls and precious stones Thailand – all of them can be visited by ordering a free transfer from hotel and back to the company SamuiTours.ru.
Markets and shops on Samui map
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Shop Makro on Samui: 9.542372, 100.040667. Shop Big C on Samui: 9.545314, 100.039616 Shop Central Festival on Samui: 9.531686, 100.061545Tesco Lotus shop on Samui: 9.533252, 100.041182.Shop Samui Lapidary on Samui: 9.578111, 99.979652Shop Bowtiful Samui on Samui: 9.465910, 100.045216Volkin Street Fair on Chaweng (Samui): 9.521888, 100.057125Walkin Street Fair on Maenam (Samui): 9.569182, 99.996786Volkin Street Fair on Lamai (Samui): 9.470058, 100.048509 Fair Volkin Street on Chong Mon (Samui): 9.569296, 100.082652 Fair Volkin Street on Bophut (Samui): 9.559623, 100.031482 Laem Din Market on Samui: 9.521296, 100.052340 Samui Market: 9.569690, 99.992838 Night Food Market at Samui: 9.536109, 99.934763 Fresh Market on Samui: 9.531834, 99.936018Tesco Lotus shop on Nathon (Samui): 9.536045, 99.936672 Market 2 on Samui: 9.442140, 100.023082