If you're visiting Mutrah Souq , don't miss a stroll through the narrow alleys that house the glittering gold shops. The bridal gold, worked into bibs, buckles and belts, may not be to everyone's taste, but the sheer accumulation of treasure in the shop windows is exciting on the eye. To find the gold souq, enter Mutrah Souq via the main entry off Mutrah Corniche, turn right immediately through the textile shops and turn left just before re-entering the corniche.
If you feel comfortable getting lost, the alleyways behind the main gold souq are home to shops selling precious stones and silver. This is where monocled old men with beards sit in a muddle of uncut, semi-precious stones, making and mending rings and pendants in designs that are as old as the hands that craft them.
