If the weather begins to cool down after the hot summer months and you feel comfortable enough to visit outside again, a great place to visit and go shopping is the wholesale market between Salwa Road and Haloul Street in Abu hamour area.
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| Vegetable souq in Doha |
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| Omani souq behind Vegetable market |
This is not only one market but so many of markets and shops. Central to the area is the vegetable market. There is no fancy layout here – this is a place where fresh produce is piled high on all sides. Outside, men with wheel barrows and long white beards wait to cart your purchases back to your car.
You can save money on the supermarkets here, if you bargain hard. We have found the best strategy is to build up a relationship with a one market seller. Not only does he give us good prices, if we need something he doesn’t have, he will locate it, bargain for it and obtain it for a better price than we could get ourselves. It is also a great place to bring your kids – its one place they will get spoilt with little gifts of fruit rather than sweets.
Behind the vegetable market is a row of shops where you can only buy vegetables in bulk. Walk past these shops and you will come to the Omani market, where there are sweet smelling spices and herbs, dried fish and, when the season is right and there has been some rain, desert truffles.
The Omani market shares a roof with plant stalls, where flowers, cactus plants and palm trees jostle for place – and you can occasionally buy herbs such as rosemary and mint.
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