Rio de Janeiro
This architecturally rich center features a number of excellent home-furnishing stores selling designer lamps, vases, decorative pieces and furniture. It…
Rio de Janeiro
This architecturally rich center features a number of excellent home-furnishing stores selling designer lamps, vases, decorative pieces and furniture. It…
Buenos Aires
Start up the limousine and make sure there’s enough room for shopping bags: at Casa López, you'll find fine Argentine leather goods, including jackets,…
Mendoza
Unless you are looking for an obscure top-of-the-range bottle (or a sales assistant who knows what they’re talking about), a good place to buy wine in…
Bogotá
Just north of the main square in the village-like Usaquén, you'll find stallholders selling food, colorful purses, assorted handicrafts and bamboo…
Cafayate
For sculpture, jewelry, and other knickknacks crafted from silver and alloy, check out this evocative shop attached to the studio of craftsman Jorge…
Centro de Exposición de Arte Indígena
Santiago
Indigenous craftspeople sell a small selection of wares at these stalls next to the Terraza Neptuno entrance to Cerro Santa Lucía; goods include silver…
Amazon Basin
The cheap clothing stalls along Pando are a good place to pick up hamacas (hammocks; single/double B$120/250) and finely woven cotton and synthetic…
Asunción
Mercado Cuatro is a lively trading lot occupying the wedge formed by the intersection of Avs Francia and Pettirossi and stretching over several blocks. It…
Lima
The prints and artwork at this side-street gallery may look familiar. You can see Jade Rivera's fantastic street art throughout Lima; the gallery arranges…
Belém
Belém’s latest, biggest mall is a modern cement, steel and glass structure, brilliantly lit at night and showcasing top-tier clothing, electronics and…
Quito
This bohemian store is a great place to hunt for handmade crafts, ceramics, wooden items, paper-mache pieces, jewelry and toys, most of them produced by…
Cuzco
Huanchac is the local destination of choice for breakfast the morning after, specializing in the two hangover staples – jolting acid ceviche and greasy…
Brasília
This complex of handicraft stalls and down-to-earth informal restaurants is loomed over by the TV tower. Some stalls are open on Thursdays and earlier in…
Santiago
A huge range of local and international clothing stores make this the fashionista mall of choice. From Manquehue metro station, it's a 1km walk (or a…
Mendoza & the Central Andes
The Mercado Artesanal Tradicional is an excellent local handicrafts market with an assortment of items for sale, including ponchos and the brightly…
Sur Chico
Temuco's Mercado Municipal was gutted by fire in 2016 and is not expected to be rebuilt until 2019. In the meantime, many artisans have moved across the…
Buenos Aires
This spacious wine and spirits shop on elegant Av de Mayo is a good place to pick up some drinkable souvenirs – or a nice bottle of malbec and some…
Puerto Natales
Down jackets, hiking boots and mountain equipment from international brands are sold here. Ticket prices may be double those back home, but for those…
Rio de Janeiro
The biggest shopping center you can reach without heading to Barra da Tijuca, Rio Sul has more than 400 shops, featuring both the prominent and the…
French Guiana
Sells souvenirs ranging from tacky and cheap to chic and smart, including books on French Guiana, local fruit jams and honey, T-shirts and every kind of…
Lima
This sprawling market is the best place to find everything from pre-Columbian-style clay pottery to alpaca rugs to knock-offs of Cuzco School canvases…
Arequipa
Excellent selection of special-interest art, history, anthropology and language titles and guidebooks in Spanish, with a smattering of English books, in a…
Bolivia
Starting at the train station, this street market extends north along Av Serrano, swallowing whole blocks on Thursdays and Saturdays.
Uyuni
The big market day in Uyuni is Thursday when Av Potosí gets taken over by stalls selling anything from arts and crafts to television sets; Sunday is a…
Manaus
This small kiosk on the square, right next to the Teatro Amazonas, has an intriguing selection of mostly Portuguese-language books on the Amazon, as well…
Medellín
For some shopping or just to rub shoulders with Medellín high society, head to the upscale El Tesoro mall. It has a variety of European and American…
Brasília
The nicest of the capital’s centrally located malls. More modern than most, with a better restaurant selection (the food court opens at noon on Sunday).
Bolivia
The mercado negro (black market) has a mishmash of consumer goods, and occupies an entire block between Avs Santa Cruz and Regimiento Chichas.
Asunción
Paraguayan malls are more than just shopping centers, and shopping in them is seen as a status symbol. This is Asunción’s newest and glitziest mall.
Pará
Santarém has a large collection of souvenirs. There's a lot of tat and not much that's original here, but you might uncover the occasional nice item.
Brasília
This mall has a large concentration of restaurants, cinema, bars and nightclubs, but very few actual stores. Very popular with the young and well-off.
Quito
One of the country’s biggest sellers of Ecuadorian straw hats (aka panama hats). Offers a small but versatile selection of its famous Cuenca brand.
Arequipa
This high-end tourist mall has plenty of expensive but good alpaca- and vicuña-wool items, jewelry, gourmet food, ceramics and other arty souvenirs.
Arequipa
Chain bookstore with a good selection of titles, including Spanish-learning resources and books in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and German.
Guayaquil
San Marino in Kennedy is a large, high-end mall with designer shops, a movie theater, food court, and American restaurants such as TGI Fridays.
Santa Cruz
Sleek, modern mall out by the fourth anillo, with a huge choice of international chain stores, bars, restaurants, banks and a cinema.
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Across from the church. This place has a bit of everything, from shell necklaces to floral shirts and the ubiquitous moai replicas.
Recife
Probably the best bookstore north of Salvador, with a big English-language selection, including Lonely Planet guides, plus music and movies.
Otavalo
Don’t expect much meat or produce at this grocery store/supermarket, whose specialty is all things canned. But you will find an ATM here.
Curitiba
One of Curitiba's best shopping malls, housed inside the former railway station. It includes a modern 10-screen cinema and over 150 shops.