Pasar Mandalika

Top choice in Mataram


There are no tourists at this vast market near the Mandalika bus terminal in Bertais, but it has everything else: fruit and veggies, fish (fresh and dried), baskets full of colourful, aromatic spices and grains, freshly butchered beef, palm sugar, pungent bricks of shrimp paste and cheaper handicrafts than you will find anywhere else in west Lombok.

It's a great place to get localised after you’ve overdosed on the bule (slang for foreigner) circuit.