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Commercial buildings, shopping centers, specialty stores and supermarkets stand in large numbers in Kunming city, making it very convenient and easy to do shopping. Commercial regions gather up in urban city, with many marketplaces standing close. Youth Road, Dongfeng Road and Righteousness Road are all sound shopping places. Anything needed during your travel can be purchased there. With genuine goods and fair prices, supermarkets such as Wal-Mart are good choices if you want to buy some local products.
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Recommended shopping places in Kunming
Situated in the middle of Erji Road in Century City, the Yindu Food and Leisure Square provides a wide range of choices in delicacies, shopping, entertainment and leisure. It is a great place for people to do shopping and to taste different kinds of food. It is also a good place to experience modern Kunming.
Kunming is a city famous for its flowers, therefore one thing that must be tried when travelling in Kunming is to visit the flower market. Nowadays the best place to buy flowers is the No. 1 Flower Market on Chajie Road which is located in the center of Kunming city.
Jingxing Road is also a place that cannot be missed when visiting Kunming. There you can buy flowers and birds, as well as a large variety of crafts made by minority ethnic people. The hand-made crafts in Kunming enjoy high reputation in China, among which there are Kuming ivory carvings, Jianchuan wooden carvings. Dried goods made from a wide range of mushrooms, wax paintings and pad dyeing by minority people are all local specialties. Distinctive commodities that are unique to Kunming include tropical fruits, Burma jewels, red teaks and plateau fungus.
The following are the portable local products in Kunming: irony carvings, dye paintings, Lun an cross-stitch works, wooden crafts, Sa ni panniers, local copper and silver, tin crafts, Yunnan spotted copper, Yunnan fruits and cigarette, Pu er tea, Chinese caterpillar fungus, flower tea, ethnic decorations and crafts, packed dried mushrooms and so on.
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