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Shopping in
Manali is mainly restricted to Tibetan and Kashmiri arts and
handicrafts. Manali provides a great souvenir shopping
opportunity with its wide variety of local stores selling
shawls (Kullu and Kashmiri) and other jewelry and
embroidered stuff.
The village Vashisht boasts of a Gem store (owner named
Shafi) that deals in semi-
precious stones, unset stones, silver ornaments, carpets,
rugs and shawls. This corner shop just below the main square
in the village will suffice all your jewelry shopping needs
in this region.
With wide variety of shawls and stoles, both Kullu pattern
(cheaper in price but with distinct pattern) and Kashmiri
style (hand – embroidered are a delight) the
place is packed with stores. Remember ‘BARGAINING’ is the
name of the game. No matter what anyone says the only person
to beat the price is going to be you. So put on yours
‘Shopping hat’ and enjoy the leisure. Even though we would
like to suggest you of shops to buy shawls from, all we
would recommend is to look around the Mall and the road off
Hadimba Road to search for your prized possessions.
You can also read our general shopping tips section to find
out more on shopping in India.
Night Life :
There is not much of nightlife in Manali. As a matter of
fact you may consider it to be non-existent. However, there
are a couple of places you can go to grab a glass of drink.
For Techno enthusiasts there is an occasional rave in the
village Vasisht. Two places to grab a drink are Khyber (on
the Mall) and Johnson's cafe (old Manali Rd). Johnson's Cafe
plays music and also serves alcohol and dinner. Even though
there is a discotheque in the Manali social club, there is
not much of an activity there. You will be better off asking
someone on current happenings (if any), once you reach
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