Best of Kigali Markets

Are you tired of AC malls and you‘re after something more authentic from handicrafts and clothing to fresh fruit and vegetables? Learn how to bargain like a pro and mingle through the Kigali markets to get insight into a typical African local market/Rwandan local market. It is always enjoyable to shop for fresh fruits and vegetables while smelling many good odors.

The true traveler knows that the essence of a city is close to the local sites and away from the tourist crowds.

Kimironko Market

                                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A visit to Kimironko Market gives you the vibrancy of a truly African marketplace; always characterized by discovery and memorable sights. The colorful Kimironko Market is housed in a large warehouse complex, with four equidistant entrances. Outside the main market, you will find from meat and fish to sunglasses and household items. Once you get inside the structure, you will see fruit and vegetable stands extending in every direction. You can also get shoes, kitchen utensils, Kitenge fabrics and crafts at Kimironko market

Kimisagara Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kimisagara market is one of the biggest market in kigali with different sections of marketable products, two or three rows per floor, four floors in all built into a hill. The sweet smell of ripe fruit and the strong stink of dried fish will welcome you as a wave as you enter. Move and shop from stall to stall and  learn how to recognize the best produces from the land as sellers ran their hands over one piece of produce and then another and , searching by touch for the best in each bunch for you. The market operates every day, every Tuesday and Friday, dealers in shoes both from the city and up country turn up for retail and whole sale shopping.

 

Kigali City Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are looking for a swanky place to do your shopping, Kigali City Market is right place. There are more floors below the ground floor than above it, but if you pop into the building through its main entrance, you won’t imagine the magnitude of activities going on underneath what you thought is the surface of the earth.  One floor down looks like the old Nyarugenge market that existed before the modern market was constructed; on this floor you will find fresh fruits and vegetables, fish and meat and other products. This place has everything from shops, supermarkets and food market, tailoring workshops, pharmacies and financial institutions that dominate the ground floor. You will also find Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and agents of all major banks Institutions operating in Rwanda all over the place.

Nyabugogo market 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whether you like to shop for fruit, veggies, herbs, electronic devises, housewares, textiles, tinkles, you’ll find what you want or need at the bustling Nyabugogo market. In the Nyabugogo area of Kigali, the bus station also acts as a trading post, facilitating commerce between folks on the move, sellers with buyers making good noise, everything is exciting. Head to Nyabugogo market and Feel the warmth of Rwandan hospitality as you connect with local vendors to get the real feel of local life.