Cheap Shopping

Vietnam was yet another awesome trip. I traveled with just 3 of my guy friends and we had a great guys trip seeing Vietnam and traveling with a smaller group for once. Shopping in Vietnam was incredibly cheap because everything was fake or bootlegged.

... of town and had bit of  a wander around, purchased a few souvenirs and took some happy snaps.  Food and shopping here was very cheap and you could see that in the main tourist season would be very  busy.  Other than the cruise ship ...

... our onward journey into Vietnam.  Guangzhou was a day stop over point to catch an overnight train to Nanning.   If you want cheap knock off goods.......try your luck here before heading into HK.  It's a lot cheaper and in a way more fun ...

... over the Famous Charles Bridge lined with ornate statues and filled with tourist and street vendors selling paintings and jewelery. After some cheap shopping, and beer (50p) we call it a night with the intention to rise at 5am to visit Charles Bridge for ...

... place for cafes, artsy shops, and culture.  I didn't stay long because the redneck in me wanted to check out the cheap shopping I heard about near the Patronato metro station.  How cheap it was!  It's like LA's Fashion District but with ...

... le 09 decembre au lieu du 19, pour arriver le 10 au matin en Australie chez les parents d'Emma ! ---------------------------------------------- Super crazy cheap shopping, Emma bought something like 15 T shirt or top, for less than 2 AUS $ each ! Ah yes, ...

not much to report, just a quick stop back in bangkok. we've actually done a fair bit of cheap shopping, giving us some much needed new cloths. it was a national holiday on monday, as it was the kings b-day. the thai are pretty easy going people, but ...

... our departure time of our flight was still a few hours away, we kept our bags with the hostel and went for some last minute shopping. We went to the nearby harbour city but there were all high-end products and in the end we did not buy anything. ...

... our hostel. We alighted at a place called Aplypse Street. There were electronice street stalls there and we thought the electronic were real cheap there but for fear of the warranty period and the coverage of the warranty, we did not buy any. As we ...

... our hop-on spot and back up to Mount Faber (which was boring). Back down to the Harbourfront centre for a bit of shopping. I grabbed a Singapore t-shirt but nothing else. The centre/mall was quite upmarket and nice. Grabbed a taxi outside and went over ...

... ; I was going to need it with all the shopping the girls had planned for the next two days ;-) The afternoons shopping extravaganza started at Platinum Fashion Mall – a five story wholesale shopping centre with nothing but clothes, clothes and more ...

... rice rolls, steamed pork and shrimp balls and lovely egg tarts. Satisfied we spent the afternoon doing dsome last minute shopping for some souvenirs including my second last fridge magnet for the trip. We did not venture beyond Kowloon this time but ...

... low.  Kel and I have been looking forward to coming here for quite sometime.  Let it be known, that I hate shopping.  It's, quite possibly, my least favorite thing to do in the world.  Mainly, this is because I'm cheap.  So with ...

... Royale" for about $12.   This should keep me occupied on my 8 hour flight to Miami. Once my afternoon of shopping was done, I stopped at a café to have a coffee.   It is so humid out today that the air conditioner in the ...

... Yamamay. For those of you expecting a list of like Prada and Dolce&Gabbana, we are currently accepting donations. After our long shopping spree, we headed off to the Leonardo da Vinci Museum, the largest technological museum in Italy. It would've been a ...

... but they were much less open to bargaining so we decided to pass. Overall it was an OK experience but definitely not the great shopping we were expecting.   Then we headed to the pearl market. This place was also massive, it had 5 floors of goods ...

... Suria KLCC could be described as your high end shopping malls with labels everywhere, Times Square is your Primark of shopping Malls. Utter madness. If you want cheap clothing go here, though be warned about sizing - I bought one top for RM15 (£3) and it ...

... in Bangkok..here u get alot of furniture, animals and super trendy clothes..it reminded me of London.. Pratunam is a cheap area for clothes shopping and also Guest Houses (ranging from 250 baht through 650b with AC and up). Its a good place to stay ...

... and belts - were classy, cool, cheap - and in abundance!  Over the next few days - I became more and more shopping challenged.  I couldnt find my ´perfect´boots in my mind - nor the bag and belt that would match them perfectly - ...

... left in Beijing for shopping, so we went to known markets of Beijing: The antiques market, the pearl market and the silk market. Shopping in those markets is a lot of fun, because of the haggling - whatever you want to buy, the merchant will offer you a ...

... for good, with a goat for company! We spent the rest of the day wandering among the hundreds of stalls, doing Chrismas shopping and gawping at the colourful textiles and the characters who were selling them. The market stretched from the plaza down all ...