it is normally customary to buy souvenirs before leaving any tourist place which helps us to remember the beautiful journey we had in that place. assam has lot to offer to shopping lovers. you can shop from a wide variety of items and take back home things for your own self or as a souvenir for a friend or relative.

• tea leaves – assam tea is well known across the world and some of the world’s finest tea comes from this place. it is best to buy the tea leaves from the tea garden where the quality is guaranteed and price is low.
• handicraft products – assam is one of the finest place to shop for handicraft items. there a lot of items which is made from wood, bamboo which are made various tribes which are found here. some of the most common kind of handicraft items which can be bought here are handloom (mekhela chaddar, assam silk saree and c), traditional jewellery (gam kharu, gal pata, doog doogi, loka paro and jan biri), bamboo and cane products, brass and bell metal crafts, pottery and so on.
• assam silk – assam produces one of the finest qualities of silk and the three main types of silk found here are muga, pat and eri silk.

amongst the best places to go shopping in assam are

• guwahati has lot of street markets which include fancy bazar, lakhtokia, gs road, paltan bazar, pan bazar, maligaon, chandmari, silpukhuri and ganeshguri areas.
• in jorhat shopping can be at at road, chowk bazar, jpr road, garh ali, and babu patty
• dibrugarh has lot of bazaars like new market, naliapol bazar, chowkidinghee bazar and amolapatty
• tezpur has famous chowk bazar which known for the handloom and handicraft items
• silchar has lot of the local markets like sadarghat area, tullapatty area, srikona bara bazar, foreign market, college road market, arunachal market which has a lot to offer.