Shopping

The main shopping areas in Jammu, traditionally known as bazaars are – Vir Marg, Raghunath Bazaar, and Hari Market. These are the best places to shop in Jammu as they well- known for Kashmiri handicrafts, traditional Dogra jewellery and various dry fruits like walnuts and almonds.

For purchasing authentic Kashmiri handicrafts you can visit the J&K Government Arts Emporium where you will find some excellent quality pashmina shawls and beautiful hand knotted carpets made of wool and silk.

Jammu, despite the general military and police related atmosphere is a very lively city at night; people have to live, to go shopping, have a tea with friends. . . etc. . . . The streets are very busy at evening and night, and, if the atmosphere was a bit weird.

 The shops decorated with hundreds of baskets of different shapes, sizes and colours, and the keepers were rather surprised to see a European looking at their wares. There are a number of cloth shops, not the real Kashmir wool.There are a lot of shops selling dry fruits, where the keepers propose to taste their products ,  variety of local production  and  you also have a glimpse at local life,  the entrance of a small temple, where worshippers enter, leaving their shoes.

Here the main bazaars – Vir Marg, Raghunath Bazaar and Hari Market – are famous for Kashmiri handicrafts, traditional Dogra jewellery and various dry fruits, chiefly walnuts (‘akhrot’) and almonds. Jammu is also known for the superlative quality of its ‘basmati’ rice, ‘rajma’ (red beans), ‘ampapar’ (dried and candied mango peel), ‘anardana’ (dried pomegranate seeds) and ‘barfi’ (milk sweets).

Important: In and around Jammnu the local shopkeepers call you to show a product like Chingu blanket scheme sponsored by J&K tourism wherein you will receive a few gifts including bed sheet, blanket, shawl, carpet.  The internet is flooded by this fake scheme so be sure not to caught in to their clutches as these are not J & K government sponsored product at all and they are making a fool of the visitors.