Darwin - Shopping

Darwin has numerous shops, including souvenir shops and craft shops, particularly on Smith Street. Typical Top End products are leather goods (e.g. the leather hats worn by the men of the outback) and Aboriginal craft products such as bark paintings, pictures reproducing sand paintings, woodcarving, basketwork and didgeridoos (tubular wind instruments).

The markets of Darwin, which because of the great heat take place in the evening, show strong Asian influence (spices, foodstuffs), offering an exotic experience. There is a food market every Friday evening at the Bus Transit Centre in Mitchell Street, and every Thursday evening there is a market at Mindil Beach. Markets are also held on Saturdays in the suburbs of Parap and