We were lucky enough to visit Kolkata's oldest market, we arrived in the afternoon to a bustling marketplace ready to spend our rupees. As soon as we were off the coach street sellers we trying to get us to buy various bits and bob's, some of which appealed and some definitely didn't! We were escorted to the centre of this massive indoor market and were told where our central meeting point was then we were off to shop! The group stayed together for a large part of the outing and went to a shop selling all sorts of things from tabla, scarves, sari's, shisha's and brass and stone statues to name a few!
We were told that you had to haggle to get the best deals and that whatever price they start at you should start at 10% of that cost! It was hilarious watching everyone trying to get the prices down! We met a young girl from the slums selling hair clips and bits, at 10 years old she can speak 10 languages fluently, incredible. She has to sell at the market to pay for her schooling but what an amazing young lady. She came all the way back to the coach with us. We really wanted to take her with us.
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