TOP 6 SHOPPING DESTINATION IN GUWAHATI- SHOPPING IN GUWAHATI

Top 6 Shopping  destination in Guwahati - Shopping in Guwahati

Guwahati being the Gateway of North East India and the biggest town in North East India have a lot of places for shopping. It is natural that if you are going to some places you will be getting indulged in this activity called shopping.  I personally like shopping at a new place as it let's me to know about the people and the things that are used by the locals.  And knowing the places for shopping is a key.  If you are here in Guwahati and go in this places for shopping I hope you will be pleased and will buy a lot of things for your friend,  family and yourself too. 

(Disclaimer : All the places that I'm saying here are totally my choice and no company or business firm have not paid me to write about them)

The following places are my suggestions to all my shopping readers to visit ones if they are Guwahati:

• Fancy Bazaar

     This is the largest market place in entire North East  India.  Fancy bazaar is a shopping Paradise for people who are looking for good product and has the talent to bargain prices it is a win-win for them . This place has to offer you a large variety of things ranging from electronics ,clothes, utensils, street food, footwear, organic flowers and many more. I would like to warn you earlier itself if you are weak at bargaining this place can take of your money. But there are places in fancy bazaar too where you can find hardcore stuff with less of your money stripped from you . I personally go to that place whenever I get time to visit Fancy Bazaar. You cannot search this place in Google map as the road is not added.  But you can search for Kamarpatti Masjid in Google maps or you can reach the Gurudwara In fancy bazaar and go towards North and the Mosque that you find at your right after walking for like 15m you can go through the narrow passage and see the magnificence of the place. You can find cheap things there.  And I would try to add the road in google then you can search right away in Google. 

You can reach this place by Bus if you are coming from Khanapara, Guwahati take the bus then land on Lakhtokia, Guwahati  and you will reach the place. If from coming from Beltola side hop onto the bus and get down on Vishal ,Paltan Bazaar,Guwahati and if you are coming from Jalukbari, Guwahati side you can directly reach Fancy Bazar, Guwahati.

• Ganeshguri

This place is quite smaller as compared to Fancy Bazaar, Guwahati considering its market size but it too have a substantial potential for a good shopper. This place is too for people who can bargain a lot.  This place is rather good for a quick stop for you if looking for a quick shopping experiences.

You can see everything here ranging from clothes to footwear. Unlike Fancy Bazaar, Guwahati this is the connecting link in Guwahati you can get into any bus and reach this place except one that goes to Narengi. This place has a Vishal Mega Mart.  And lots of local vendors. You can also buy hardware stuff in Ganeshguri, Guwahati. 

• Big Bazaar

This place is becoming the landmark of Bhangaghar, Guwahati now. This is one of the best place you want a supermarket experience. You can see its rush on sunday evening,  During my time in the coaching I might have visited this place more than 100times. You can get all your needs in this one place.  They have everything I don't think so i have to say alot about Big Bazaar everyone knows about it but still if some people who don't know.  It has products ranging from clothes to food electronics to stationary they started providing bicycles too.

I personally love this place. But this place is not ultra cheap which will be coming later in the blog so keep reading. You can reach here by bus no 13 and 02 up or down . This is right into the heart of Bhangaghar,Guwahati . I hope you like the visit here. There is only one Big Bazaar in Guwahati. 

• Vishal Mega Mart 

There are  four of this bad boys in the Guwahati.  One in Paltan Bazar, Guwahati(the largest and the oldest) ,another at Ganeshguri, Guwahati, another one in Bamunimaidan, Guwahati  and the last smallest and newest one in Kalapahar, Guwahati. This place is a big daddy if you say of cheap things.  There are cheap clothes cheap household things just like Big Bazaar, Guwahati clothes, stationary, electronics it just lacks the bicycle. 

If you are a single guy living in a rent this place is your heaven, I personally bought a lot of things for my rent at my time in Guwahati. The only downside is that the quality.  The quality is OK but not like high class.  If you are looking for cheap  'jugadu' Things you can use in day to day life and you have to save your pocket money this place is your saviour. But if you want good quality things here hardly you would find something. Still this place is worth your time. I would recommend you to visit this place there are three of  them so you can visit any one of them.  You can get into any city bus of Guwahati to reach there directly except buses to Narengi, Guwahati.  

• Brand Factory 

This place might have the largest collection of fashion according to my knowledge after Guwahati Central. This is a branch of the Future Group the firm which run both Big Bazaar and the Central chain. It has a lot of variety in terms of the quantity of the clothes that it has to offer. This place being at the heart of the Guwahati, city is not much popular to tourist and people who are new to Guwahati. I think its location is the biggest culprit followed by lack of marketing and its placement as it is hard to notice at the fast glance in the Guwahati concrete jungle.  You can reach by aging the same buses that you need to reach Big Bazaar ,Bus no 02 & 13 .

It is located behind the Lachit Nagar, Guwahati  Hanuman Mandir . I would recommend you all to visit this place if you are looking for branded clothes .

• Guwahati Central

This place is quite misunderstood to Central Mall, Guwahati . But I would like to clarify that Central Mall, Guwahati and Guwahati Central are totally different and are located on two different places in Guwahati . Central mall, Guwahati is a mall with lots of store within it. Guwahati central might be largest supermarkets  for fashion in Guwahati. It has a enormous collection of clothes, footwear and accessories.  This is a premium place but also offers alot of discount. 

Anyone looking for branded stuff I insist you to visit this place.  It is 3 floor jam packed with fashion goodness. The ground floor houses the western wear for ladies, watches, perfumes and cosmetics. The second floor houses ladies footwear, ladies ethnics wears, ladies lingerie and handbags. The third floor is for men it has casual wear for men, sports wears and footwear for men. The third and final floor contains formal clothes for men, underwear, pajama,  formal footwear, and kids section. 

That all guys for today this are my top suggestions for you to go shopping in Guwahati city. If you have anything to say about my blog please feel free to write in the comment section. 

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5 LESSER KNOWN PLACES GUWAHATI

Guwahati on foot

5 Lesser known places

Guwahati also called the 'Gateway of Northeast' is the largest city in the North Eastern part of India. I'm calling it city but people from bigger actual cities   will feel it more as a town. Since I'm from this area for me this is a city and since I have not been to any other big city other then Kolkata so please don't expect that I will put forward some comparison. Moreover this is my experience here in this city which have experienced here while walking on the streets of this city. 

Places you should consider

I'm not going to tell you the conventional places like the great Maa Kamyakha temple, Digholi Pukhuri, Kalakshetra etc. But I will tell about you some of the little places which you will enjoy visiting . Which I found interesting while I was exploring the city. While I walked the city. 

This are the few places that you should should consider:

• Machkhowa Brahmaputra Bank:

This place is quite under looked but this place is magnificent. If you visit this place at late afternoon then it is great . The sunset here is just breath taking. The view of the hills,  the silhouette of the Saraighat Bridge gives a very great touch to this magnificent scenic beauty of the place. I'm quite positive either you are a single or in a couple both kind of the people will like it. The best part is this place can be reached free.  You can reach the place easily by foot from Fancy Bazaar its around 750 m from there. To get to the better place you can enter through the entry of Alfresco Grand  cruiser there is better as it allows outsiders and it has quite a long stretch  of bank so you can enjoy the walk . If you want to experience the Brahmaputra from its heart you can get onto a cruiser too.  This place is highly recommended not only to visitors but also people from Guwahati too as many people don't consider this place. 

• Assam State Museum : I visits this place quite often and all the time I'm so intrigued by looking at our past our great history. This place is quite under looked . It is great if you are looking for the past and the way of life of the people who lived in the region. This place in spite of being so cheap at 5 bucks an adult still it has so less visitors.  But I highly recommend this place to all of my readers, as it gives you the inside knowledge . The Museum is a three storied building in the left side of the ground floor it shows the magnificent and beautiful monolithic stone sculptures.( I personally have a question if anyone visits there "Can you tell me the reason why some of the Brahmin's eyebrows that resemble Asian eyebrows like those of Mongolian race others have more curved like that of Aryan race?"If anyone knows please tell me in the comment section).  OK now on the right side of the first floor first it houses war weapons from late medieval to World War II and then in the more interior you have stone carvings, coins and lot more and on the right on the first floor you can find the palm scriptures. On the first floor of central part you will see something which reminds me of my grandparents home during my childhood.  It is a model village it quite accurately represented. And a lot of other things I don't wanna tell all the parts and spoil the surprise factor now its up to you you can visit this place. Reaching this place is quite easy it is quite sure that you will visit the Digholi Pukhuri . To reach the Assam State Museum you just have to cross the road from its Southern gate and Ta-da you reached the Museum. 

• Sati Radhika Shaanti Udyan: This is another place on the bank of the mighty Brahmaputra unlike the Machkhowa River Bank it has places to seat.  This place is mostly known by locals. This place has  very beautiful views and it has trees which is what makes it ideal place to visit during summer.  This place is quite popular among couples. If you are visiting as a couple you must visit this place. You can reach this place within a 10 minute walk from Digholi Pukhuri you just have to take one left one right and one more right then walk straight until you reach the place at a slight right. If you are walking out of the Southern gate and walk left the above will be applicable. 

• GMCH HILL TOP Road:

This is a magnificent view point on the Hilly road of GMCH this place has many places from where you can see the Guwahati city.  Visit this place at night you can see the beautiful glittering city which will baffle your mind and you would love this place . If you fear heights, then still this place won't scare you as it doesn't have much steep falls so you won't feel much as the rise is gradual. I would recommend to visit this place alone, so that you can feel its peacefulness  but if you have a friend or girlfriend/boyfriend still this place is very great.  You can reach this place just by walking from GMCH straight towards the hill there is only on road. And for those who don't know what is GMCH it is Guwahati Medical Collage Hospital. 

• Gandhi Mandap:  

This place houses the third tallest national flag in India. This place doesn't only have the flag but as the name suggest Gandhi Mandap so it has a big Statue of the 'Father Of Our Nation' Mahatma Gandhi it has dedicated museum for the great man. This place is on the top of Sarania hill. I won't recommend you to visit this place on foot unless you are a walking freak like me as this would leave your feet hurting you for the next day or two.  But if you can walk up the hill then you will have two experiences at ones one on reaching the place and one on the journey to the top.  The view from the Gandhi Mandap is magnificently cool . You can see almost see the entire Guwahati city but unluckily visiting this place at night is bit problematic but still if you manage to visit  at night you can see the magnificence of the city, first hand. Unlike the GMCH hill top road I would recommend you to go with someone if you are walking up the hill.  As it will cut the journey stress and enjoy the beauty .  But this place is not recommended for people with fear of heights.  You can reach this place by walking through the South Sarania Hill road it will swirl you to your destination. 

And many more

Guide for walking on foot

Since love walking I will like to give you readers some tips that will help you to enjoy the beauty of a place from the closest way possible . As nothing can make you more close to the place then walking through the place you can actually experience much more then it meets the eyes.  But walking on foot for all over the city is not not possible . Still you can take a public transport and reach popular landmarks like Digholi Pukhuri , Fancy Bazaar etc.  

Tips on exploring on feet:

• Keep GPS handy.  Keep your smart phone with bit of charge on it. 
• Find the shortest route possible not only the suggestion by google but also by analysis the map itself. 
• Always ask the shopkeepers not the pedestrians if you want some help . You never know what are the intentions of that person and moreover shopkeepers are generally locals so they have better knowledge about the place.
• Try to avoid exploring new roads at late night especially when you are alone. Because safety is the priority.  You may end up into some problem. 
• Try to notice the small details that are there. So that you can experience the magic of the place. Try to feel the culture that have evolved in the city. 
• Keep your phone/camera handy so that you can click some breath taking pictures capturing the raw essence of the place.

My story exploration on feet :

I was not always that of a exploring junkie like this. Actually at my early teen I was quite a person who would stay at home and do my studies. But when I came to Guwahati  to do coaching after my intermediate  like other students of since aspiring to be something in future but after attending few classes it seemed quite boring and one day I thought of bunking the class and see for myself how is life outside. I bunked the class that day and I went under a flyover and sat there. I didn't  have anything to do so I sat there more than a couple of hours and my mind too was quite jumbled up thinking about the future what will  happen to my life and all those things. But while sitting there I saw an old man laying by the on the pavement . I saw that man was quite dirty too but I didn't judge him rather I just imagined one thing that changed my perspective to see the world.  I thought that we are from well to do families and we think we have so much worries in life our future. In this peruse of our life we forget how people are surviving and are happy with so little things we are quite lucky. If we move pass the people without noticing them their life the way these people live their life from that day and don't learn from them  how happiness is not with materialistic things. I   felt at that place how lucky  and now I admire my life rather then just wishing to be something that will be in future. We should think of future but not so much that it consume our present . So this is my conclusion hope you like it.

" Notice the path not the destination because destination is seen by everyone but noticing the path and appreciating it is done by very less".

"So walk as much as you can, as long as you can and feel the place equally". 

" I didn't say you should bunk your class but it was my story"

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