Last Days of Home Shopping Festival 2013

Parpidam - Home Shopping Festival

Home Furnishing & Building Expo is here. Furniture, furnishings, interior decoration products are on display bringing together builders and designers together on the same platform. The expo has been moving across cities in Kerala and there are two dates and venues where you can see it:

March 2-4, 2013 in Trichur

March 9-11, 2013 in Kochi

Shopaholics Alert! Grand Kerala Shopping Festival

The Grand Kerala Shopping Festival is set to begin...

Event 1: Launch

Date : December 15, 2012 

Venue: Municipal Jawahar Stadium, Kannur

Event 2 - Global Village

The Grand Kerala Festival Shopping Festival offers visitors massive discounts, special deals, gifts in gold, lucky draws. Be There!

Date – December 22, 2012 to January 5, 2013

Venue – Grand Kerala Shopping Festival Global Village, Kochi

Highlights:

International Pavilion will showcase global tourism, handicrafts, industrial products and variegated art forms from across the world

National Pavilion will present state wise art forms and traditional products

Kerala Pavilion will be a glimpse into Kerala’s traditions from its Ayurveda to its folk arts, handloom and handicrafts

Brand Pavilion will focus on the associate sponsors of the Grand Kerala Shopping Festival. The pavilion will be an opportunity to test market, launch and display new products

For Kids there is an Amusement Park and there’s a Food Court as well, both together sprawling across 22,000 sq.ft.

Contact

gksf@keralatourism.org

Toll free – 1800 419 6767, 0-4444444444

Shopping at Jayalakshmi Silks

Shop Till You Drop

Jayalakshmi Silks - Kochi

                             
Jayalakshmi Silks is situated on the main road of Kochi - MG Road. It is always packed with shoppers as Jayalakshmi offers quality and value for money. There are 5 floors with each devoted to a particular niche:
 Women's wear, Men's wear, Wedding trousseau, Children's wear. The range of readymades is dazzling be it shirts and sherwanis to salwar sets. Fabric is also available in mindboggling variety. It is a sheer delight to shop here because the staff are attentive without being intrusive.

Visit just to see how the staff drape the sarees so that the purchaser can see the final look in a mirror that's rolled in. See pix below. 

Jayalakshmi Silks - Kochi

There's coffee handed around when fatigue sets in and  enough seats for those who tire, especially the men who watch their women folk shop till they drop!

Contact Information:
1.  For Jayalakshmi Silks Kochi contact - 484-99999 
2. Jayalakshmi Silks has now opened shops elsewhere, too. There's one in Thiruvanthapuram's MG Road, which is even more spacious with 6 floors. Ph: 471-99999 
3. There's a branch in Kozhikode Ph: 484-99999 
and more coming up in places like Thrissur.

Shopping in Thekkady

White Pepper

               
Shop for Spices in Thekkady       
Kumily Spice Village:    
They charge you just to enter setting you back almost by Rs.300, as it iss charged per head. The shop here also does not sell in quantity of your choice and you will have to buy packaged.

A better option is the market in Thekkady which is right at the junction. There is a Spice Castle which is at the beginning of the lane and Lord's Spices at the end of the lane. The latter offers really great prices like coffee for Rs.50 for 1/4 kg and they also sell soaps in singles. There are also gift packs of spices which offer a variety of spices in a simple plastic or boxed. Spice Castle offers very good quality spices that lasts 3 years.

Elaichi

Besides the spices,  there are Kashmiri shops selling traditional handicrafts. There is a Kerala Government Handloom shop selling exquisite fabric. In addition, there is just one government-recognised Handicraft emporium worth a visit which sells wall hangings with Raja Ravi Varma paintings and wooden curios.

Kishmish

Elaichi

Cinnamon