
Discover delicious Uzbekistan with an unforgettable gourmet tour that will delight your taste buds and significantly expand the horizons of your knowledge and palate. The Uzbekistan Food Tour will reveal the secrets of local cuisine, and you’ll learn how to cook some Uzbek dishes for yourself: filling patir non (traditional bread), rich pilaf, hearty shurpa, and more. Visit bazaars to see how food has been sold for centuries, and dine on the best Uzbek foods in restaurants in Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva. You’ll have plenty of time to explore the sights of these famous cities in between dishes of shashlyk (kebabs roasted over coals), lagman (thick homemade noodles served with lamb and vegetable stew), samosa (puff pastry stuffed with meat), and hanum (dough rolled around shredded potatoes and ground meat). The Uzbekistan Food Tour is a tour that you (and your stomach) won’t be soon to forget.
Tour itinerary:
Duration of sightseeing tour: 4-5 hours
Next, the driver will take you to Siyob bazaar, eastern market, where you will meet the chef, who will lead master class in cooking Samarkand pilaf. Siab bazaar is the largest and the oldest marketplace in Samarkand. Its stalls offer to try and haggle for vegetables, fruits, nuts, oriental sweets, spices, cereals. The market houses rows of street food cafes that offer national dishes, most of them cooked on firewood. You will find there shashlyk (barbeque, usually from minced and diced beef), pilaf (Uzbek signature dish similar to Indian briani), lagman (hot noodle soup with beef and vegetables topping), shurpa (soup with rather big pieces of red meat and vegetables), samsa (stuffed puff pastry), khanum (steamed rolled dough with some shredded potato). After dinner you will do shopping together with the chef, he will tell how to choose and differentiate “right” ingredients for Samarkandi pilaf. Then the driver will take you to national house where master class will be conducted. Overnight at the hotel.
Duration of sightseeing tour: 3-4 hours
Duration of sightseeing tour: 3-4 hours
Duration of sightseeing tour: 3-4 hours
*The drive on vans and buses is on average an hour longer.
Duration of sightseeing tour: 5-6 hours
*As the cafés and restaurants on the way are basic and offer limited menus, you may wish to take a packed lunch on this trip (your hotel or guide can help you arrange this the day before).
**Some parts of the road are not in the best condition.
Duration of sightseeing tour: 5 hours
- All transfers 1-2 pax by sedan type car; 3-7 pax by minivan type car; 8-13 pax by 30 seat bus, 14 pax and more by 40-50 seat bus;
- Accommodation based on double/twin room sharing, breakfasts included;
- Sightseeing tour program in each city with local guides;
- Entrance tickets to sightsas per itinerary;
- Ticket for train Tashkent-Samarkand (on rare occasions when the high-speed train is unavailable, we will replace this with the most-comfortable class of regular train);
- Economy class ticket for flight Urgench-Tashkent;
- Visa support letter for Uzbekistan visa;
- Full board and master classes as per itinerary;
- Wine degustation in Samarkand;
- Folklore show at Madrasah Nodir Devan Begi in Bukhara.
- Tour leader to accompany the travellers for the whole period of the tour;
- Hotel charges for additional services;
- Consular fees for Uzbekistan tourist visa;
- Tips are not included, but would be appreciated;
- Travel insurance.
Accommodation:
Tashkent - 1 night | |
Navruz, Praga, Sharq, Grand Capital, Bek | Wyndham Tashkent, Miran, Grand Mir, City Palace |
Samarkand - 2 nights | |
Platan, Meros, Orient Star, Malika Prime, Rabat, City | Dilimah, Sultan, Grand Samarkand Superior A, Grand Samarkand Superior B, Platan, Alexander, Minor, Malika Prime, Asia Samarkand |
Bukhara - 3 nights | |
As-Salom, Fatima or similar | Omar Khayam, Minorai-Kalon, Devon-Begi, Zargaron Plaza, Asia Bukhara |
Khiva - 2 nights | |
New Star, Qosha Darvoza or similar | Erkin Palace or similar |