Bara Bazar

Bara Bazaar is the most famous and popular flea market in Aizawl for purchasing local items and traditional clothes. If you are stepping in Aizawl for the first time then Bara Bazaar shall be on your must visit list.

Locals dressed in their traditional costumes sell produce from farms and homesteads including river crabs, wicker baskets, vegetables etc. Tourists mostly love to buy colourful traditional garments, shoes and cosmetic items from this market.

The steep Zion Street is lined with stalls selling garments. The main bazar is where the people are best seen in their traditional costumes selling produce from the farms as well as imports from China brought through Myanmar border area.

The Millennium Centre in the same locality is a popular shopping Mall.

Getting There

Aizawl is connected by roads with various major cities of Mizoram. It is connected by road with Silchar through National Highway 54 (NH54), with Agartala through National Highway 40 (NH40) and with Imphal through National Highway 150 (NH150). Various bus routes run within the city along with the taxis that ply the roads, making it very convenient for the locals to travel within the city.

Silchar is the nearest railway station to Aizawl which is only 178 km away from the city. Local trains are also available to Lumding from here. Mizoram state transport buses ply between Aizawl and Silchar daily.

Aizawl is served by Lengpui Airport, located 35 km northwest of the city. Currently Air India are operating scheduled flights daily at Lengpui Airport to Imphal and Kolkata. Jet Airways also provide scheduled flights to Guwahati and Kolkata from this Airport three flights weekly.

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