The best fashion and gift stores - Peru in 2024

Practical information : Treat yourself (& others) Peru

Timetable

There's no time for shopping, especially in the most touristy cities. Handicraft stores are plentiful and often open late into the evening. Craft markets also stay open until around 8pm.

Budget & Tips

It's time to compare! And don't hesitate to bargain or buy in groups. It's easier for retailers to offer discounts on multiple purchases. Another argument is to indicate that you intend to pay in cash. You won't be able to pay by card in a market, but you will be able to pay in a traditional handicraft store. Take into account the quality of the product, which can vary greatly from place to place. In stores run by associations or producers, prices are harder to negotiate, but the quality is quite different.

Sales

Sales are held several times a year, usually in mid-January and mid-August. However, the products you come to Peru to buy are rarely affected, except perhaps the finest alpaca or vicuña clothing from brands such as Anntarah or Kuna, which can also be found in airports and shopping malls.

What's very local

Each region has its own techniques and certain art objects or traditional ways of weaving. If you like something, don't hesitate, because even if everything looks the same, you may not find exactly the same product elsewhere. In Lima and Cusco, large craft markets bring together products from different regions. Markets are still the most popular places to shop, as are some of the more elegant boutiques. We are also seeing the emergence of a number of small designer boutiques that reinvent and fuse traditional techniques with contemporary fashions. Peru remains a very creative country, with some magnificent one-off pieces, and you'll have to choose between silver jewelry, alpaca or vicuña hats, sweaters or coats, altarpieces, shipibo jungle fabrics and musical instruments. Make room in your suitcases.

Tourist traps

Everything is baby alpaca. Touch, learn and recognize. Even here, what is very inexpensive is rarely quality. You'll gradually get the hang of it, and be able to distinguish the mass-produced from the finest pieces.

The best fashion and gift stores Peru

COCOLISO

MERCADO INKA MIRAFLORES

CAMPING EQUIPMENT

INTI

DON SABINO

TALLER DE FOTOGRAFIA PROFESIONAL

SBS

AGUA Y TIERRA

CRISOL

ISA LUNA ALALAU CUSCO

COLC'ART

PIETA

FERIA LA UNION

ALQA

LARCOMAR

TALLER DE CERAMICA JENNY

CASA DEL CORREGIDOR

CUY ARTS

FERIA ARTESANAL FUNDO EL FIERRO

AWAMAKI

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