Latin America Collection

Managua's numerous shopping malls, such as the massive
MetroCentro, Centro Comercial Managua and Plaza Intur,
offer most consumer goods and brand names from the United
States. The brand new Galerías Santo Domingo, scheduled to
open in early 2005 in Managua, will be the largest mall in all of
Nicaragua, will 107 stores, 33 restaurants and 10 large movie


theaters.
New smaller strip malls are popping up all the time, as testament
that the days of the economic embargo are now a thing of the
past. La Curacao department stores offers electric domestic
appliances and are found all over the country, and Managua even
has a new Price Mart.
The largest malls are complete with food courts and movie
theaters ­ offering all the creature comforts of Ohio, only with
fewer obese people.
Many of the products sold in malls are more expensive because
of import duties, but you can find pretty much everything you
need, from Radio Shack and Pizza Hut, to SpongeBob Square
Pants and Play Station II.
For other hard-to-find goods, or expensive electro-domestic
appliances, some people take advantage of trips to Miami or
Shpoaholicas will love the new Metro Centro Mall in Managua


Panama to bring some household items back to Nicaragua. But
most of what you need you can find here.
Wooden furniture and quality handicrafts are readily available in
Nicaragua. The department of Masaya is famous for its beautiful
and inexpensive hardwood rocking chairs, doors and furniture.
Many of the artisans will take custom orders, and are very good
at reproducing furniture from a picture taken from a magazine,
or off the Internet.