The whole family liked the market , it is better to take spices in an indoor building and tea in one place.
Excellent cured smoked meat ( pork )
Fruits and vegetables are almost everywhere the same price and no one forbade haggling .
Almost all the purchased products turned out to be spoiled. We bought chestnuts and churchkhela 3 pieces for 100 (well, tempting) yesterday. Chestnuts are still +-, 40 percent began to germinate, they did not notice in the package, but the churchkhela "fire" was covered with mold in a day (it was in the package, I do not argue, but in 24 hours it became completely unusable). Tangerines are okay, green ones are neatly hidden at the bottom of the package, but they are generally edible. I definitely do not recommend the market, the place of purchase was close to the entrance from the lake.
Don't buy anything there. They told us very beautifully about the wine and gave it to us for a taste, they bought it out of respect. An experiment was conducted at home, a glass of purchased wine was lowered into the water, after 20 seconds the water was red, and everything in the glass became transparent. Just a painted surrogate, it's a shame.
I read the reviews after visiting the market. We bought wine and chacha there, although we usually don't fall for this on excursions, but something went wrong. We checked the vaunted homemade kinzdmarauli and it turned out to be dyed water with alcohol. Don't buy anything there. Everything is fake and deception.
They are cheating in this market!
At the end of the market on the right, a man sells "pomegranate juice". He gives you a taste of the real one, and he has terrible chemical slops in bottles!
It is worth buying something on the market only if you try it right away, with the seller
We stopped on the way to Lake Ritsa
I noticed a churchkhela in the market of 3 pcs for 100, do not try to buy it, it is not churchkhela, but water with flour, nuts halves, smells of finished meat..... Be careful
The topic of Abkhazia for me is like drinking honey anywhere else as in the market, they will kindly and politely sell you what you did not even want to buy, but after all, we buy it is impossible to refuse sweet grandmothers to women who, like their mothers, will show everything, explain everything for a long time you stand around them thinking that you would grab something else that then lies in the refrigerator for six months and it's a pity to throw away like jam A kind woman sold you some tangerines, didn't she?
Very nice service. Everyone is trying to sell something. The wine is fake. Do not try, measure, or touch anything. The market is designed for a one-time buyer.
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Алина Малина
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August 21, 2021
There was an excursion. We stopped at the blue lake and, of course, the market. I bought two types of chacha (feijoa, mandarin). Wow, they really praised that the product is natural, everything is super....! Upon arrival home, they opened them... It turned out to be just WATER, tinted with something. Not a drop of alcohol, not a taste!!!!!! This is a dilution!
I advise you not to buy anything in Abkhazia! Even the locals admit that everything is fake or imported from Adler.
The whole Abkhazian feature is on the shelves. Nuts of all kinds, tangerine juice, a little bit of national clothes, China-some clothes with a cardboard for legs, spices, local alcohol, local teas (I do not recommend this slag, it tastes like dust from dogoga).
It's something with something! I wish I hadn't gone there! Sellers are sleeping on the shelves! They will give me a taste of cheese, then they demand to buy it, although I did not like the cheese!
They are outraged why I bought from a neighbor on the counter! The attitude towards tourists is ugly! Prices are like in the store on Tverskaya Street in Moscow! Unsanitary conditions everywhere! I was poisoned by something - I lay down for two days! "You shouldn't have gone Vanek.".. there!!! Fruits and watermelons are 2-4 times more expensive than on the Don highway!
A big market, just a bazaar-train station, as they say))) Jewelry, lard, and shoes can be found in the same shopping mall)))
Before you buy something, go around the entire market and get a price, the price difference for the same product can be two times.
We bought smoked meat, sheep's cheese there (by the way, about cheese - it is cheaper and tastier here than in wineries where tourists are taken), churchkhella, everything turned out to be delicious and fresh
As we wrote below, it's a pity I didn't read it before going to the merchants of "real wine". I think it's better not to buy anything there at all! Intrusive and noisy sellers offering like home goods.... . I bought wine and remembered the drink - Yuppi.
In New Athos, the market is open even at night. Cow's milk is always delicious. Polite, responsive sellers. A good selection of fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, meat and lots of spices.
Don't buy wine there, or better yet, nothing at all!
I bought Abkhazian wine in factory packaging from two girls (they are the only ones selling it there). ALL the wine turned out to be fake! They also offered to try homemade wine - it's some kind of braga with the taste of vinegar and the color of grapes.
Let's go get some color. They left with a bag of spices and a bag of fruits. The freshest cheese, mmm. Smoked is also delicious. Dried meat is delicious, my husband still remembers. You definitely need to go!!
Prices for similar products are sooo much different. Go around it first and get a price. It's small, it won't take much time. They give you almost everything to try, cheeses, smoked meat, tkemali, etc. Simple meat, used for pilaf and shish kebab, is very expensive. And there are only three points on the market. But the magnet is also cheap)))
It was as if I was immersed in the atmosphere of the 80s and 90s.
There are many things that you will not see in the markets of Russian regions.
The prices are cheap. Colorful sellers. A pleasant place. The stopped time.
Body kit and deception, brazenly. Tomatoes were hung. Apricots were hung. They brought home -tasted -Chacha and sold tinted water. - Don 't set foot in these markets anymore , and I don 't advise you to
It's hard to call it a market-retail outlets. The market is more for tourists. They mostly sell souvenirs. There are very few sellers in winter. The prices are too high.