Shopping on holiday: The essential guide

By Nina Karnikowski
Updated February 7 2016 - 1:15am, first published 12:15am
Train market in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo: iStock
Train market in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo: iStock

Let's get one thing straight: shopping, when indulged in overseas, is not a fickle pastime. More often than not, and particularly when you ignore mega-malls and delve into markets and specialty stores, it's a key to a city that unlocks doors to its history, craftspeople and secrets. It's a hall pass to buying unnecessary items that you're able to justify simply because you're in a different postcode. And whether you see it as an enjoyable way of injecting money back into the local economy, of discovering hot new designers who haven't made it big yet, or of indulging a passion for a particular kind of weaving or antique collecting, overseas shopping is damn fun, too.

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