Shopping in Vrindavan is, naturally, the market. And the main and most famous market of Vrindavana is LOY-BASEAR. . You can buy everything there everything! You can wander around the streets of this market for hours, and at the same time get great pleasure from the range of goods, and from very low prices. The only thing that can upset is heat and Poproshaiki . These are these most begins, sometimes it may not be very bored by travelers, but they can drag on the market all three hours nearby and darling: "Rupees! Rupee! ". Load only when you skip into some store.
There is one store on the Loy-Bazaar - "Gongotri" . This is a two-story store with air conditioning and quite similar to the European market. This is where European and Russian / Ukrainian tourists are purchased. Sellers here, albeit with an emphasis, but speak perfectly and understand in Russian (even almost everyone knows the numbers in Russian).
On the very Loya Bazar, you need to know about the peculiarities of national trade, so to speak. About them a person is unemployed and just who came to the city is almost nothing unknown, so it would be nice Take a spent From the local, which is certainly aware that the goods on the market are too expensive, and what is worth the stated price. Without a knowledgeable person on the market, the likelihood is that you will be sold something wrong (sometimes you can slip the shoes of different sizes - anything happens!). In any case, if we went alone, try to bargain, since the "white" man from the sellers always have a desire to sell the goods twice as expensive.
Well, now more about what can be brought from Vrndavana.
- Incense in assortment. If you like these things, then drive as much as you can. Immediately kilo thirty. Try, if possible, incense toulse, naked, rose, sandalwood, chintamani, mavishu, orchid, Makhraj, etc.. In Vrindavan, it is better to ask the local, where it is better to take and what is "fashionable", so to speak.
- Aroma oils . Again, before buying it is better to consult with a knowledgeable people. If you are "in the subject", then we assume that only natural oils can be used for deities. Choose natural oil It is not difficult: you need to anoint a little hand - if the oil does not dry up for a long time, then it is suitable (after all, the alcohol is destroyed faster). You can lick the smeared place - if the language has been protected, and the presence of alcohol is clearly felt - such an oil is not suitable. However, if oil does not require oil for deities, buy and alcohol, if you please.
- Sandal . True, the one is offered on the LOI-Bazaar, as a rule, sufficiently low quality. But here it can and take away. By the way, it is better to take a tree, not powder.
- Wooden "Spoons" and Made Cunds for Yagi . Well, here, probably, too, more for enlightened. For others, I will explain popular: Kunda is what the fire burns, that is, a sort of altar for fire. Such an altar is always created a square shape (you can buy large, about 40 cm wide). And Yagya is such a ceremony that is done to purify Karma, achieving success in their affairs. The yagi procedure is, in essence, singing of special Vedic Mantra is near this Kunda. As a souvenir, such a thing there is probably not necessary, but for friends (or for yourself), which really need it - quite. These pieces can be purchased just on the Loi-Bazaar. By the way, still for the ceremony need a special herbal mixture (with fused oil and seeds) called "Samagry" . It can be bought, for example, in a stall at the temple of Krishna-Balarm-Mandir.
- Dhoti and Chadara. Dhot. - This is a traditional kind of male clothes. It is a strip of tissue up to five meters long, which is rocked around the legs and hips and passes one end between the legs. Dhot, as a rule, white or at least this is a single-color cloth, sometimes with an ornament along the edge. If everything is correctly closed, then something like a narrow short or short sharovar.
Chadar - This is generally a scarf cape, shawl.
For women - Meckhala Chadar : Consists of two pieces of fabric: the lower, winding as a skirt (meckhal), and the top, which is thrown over the shoulder and cover the chest (chadar). Under the chadar you need to wear choli blouse. Traditional Meccla Chadar makes cotton, silk or jute, sometimes from a mixture of silk with cotton plus with synthetic thread.
Meccla is traditionally decorated with small pattern (boot). Caddar is large ornaments depicting leaves, flowers or animals, or something inventical. Sometimes Meckhala Chadar is decorated with embroidery. In general, Meckhala Cardar is as popular as traditional Sari. It's all you can buy in the market of Loi. Immediately I warn you that you can get stuck in the department with these scarves for a long time - the eyes simply scatter! The main thing is to choose. By the way, this beauty is basically quite inexpensive, you can say cheap.
- Indian fruits or vegetables . Preference, of course, is that it is more difficult to meet in our stores. For example, with papaya, mango and guava can still be encountered. But S. Chico (or Sapodyillat) - a little more complicated. Chico looks like mango, only smaller and more brown; in shape resembles an egg; Taste of milky caramel.
Okra - Or Bamia is the fruit of a green pointed pod of a conical shape, very rich in different vitamins. Young pods are used in food. Taste - something average between zucchini and green trummers.
Also you can grab in the market Fresh leaves curry and etc.
- Natural monophonic silk . Buy Isshevo immediately several meters and different colors, which is the soul of pleasing. Generally super!
- Set of parafernali . Krishnaites are so called accessories for the service (this is a small mudink for a wick, a small tray, stands under the incense, cups, lamps for camphore and oil, bells, etc.). You can get up for silver items. In fact, order from Russia is very expensive, so many prefer to ask those who go to India. If there are devotees among friends, they all use it all in the cold Russia, and it's not so simple to find it all. And so - it is possible to bring as a souvenir.