Interesting Places
Workshops, viewpoints, and experiences worth a detour
15 places
Master classes & traditions
Gijduvan and Its Ceramics
The region's only surviving centre of polychrome glazed ceramics: work…
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Bozori Kord Baths (operating continuously since the 16th century)
A working seventeenth-century hammam by the trading dome: marble floor…
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Historical and ethnographic complex «Vechny Gorod»
Historical-ethnographic complex «Vechny Gorod» is a large-scale cultur…
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Plov class with Dila
Samarkand plov in a local family home.
Master classes & traditions
Traditional Uzbek Cooking House
Hands-on Uzbek cooking lessons in a private home.
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CraftnCulture workshops
Pottery, suzani, mulberry paper and Samarkand cooking with local maste…
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Siab Bazaar tour and home cooking class
Shopping at Siab Bazaar, then plov and samsa in a family home.
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Cooking class with a family in a village near Samarkand
A trip to the market, then plov and flatbread in a family home in a vi…
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Cooking class at Ikat National House
A hands-on lesson in home-style Uzbek cooking.
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Cooking class at the Lutfillo National House
Family plov and home cooking at a national house on Sharq Tongi Street…
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Cooking class at Adras House
Home-style plov and Uzbek dishes in a family house in the old town.
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Plov Samarqand ethno courtyard: wood-fired plov
Wood-fired plov and tandoor bread in a courtyard furnished like an Uzb…
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Cooking class at the National House of Shakhnoza
Make Samarkand plov and manti yourself in a family-run home restaurant…
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Traditions Square craft centre
Cooking and craft classes: plov, samsa, ceramic painting, suzani, call…
Master classes & traditions
Koni Gil Meros Craft Factory (paper workshop)
Silk paper by an eighth-century method: mulberry bark, a water mill an…