Fodor's Expert Review Sur Souq

The Sur Souq stretches over several blocks, beginning with an outdoor vegetable market near the old spice shops, where spices are still roasted and custom-blended for customers. Past these shops there are tailors, perfume shops, electronics stores, and finally a little strip of gold shops. It is a quiet part of town in the afternoon, but in the morning, you will find Suri ladies doing their grocery shopping, and in the early evening, there is a good showing of local residents wandering in and out of the other shops and taking tea along these narrow streets.