COOKING CLASS(meals: plov+1 more) in Samarkand,visit Bread bakery
- 5 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Spending a day with our local family during your visit to Samarkand offers a truly unique and enriching experience: 1. **Authentic Insights**: You'll gain authentic insights into the local culture, traditions, and daily life. It is a good way to learn about the local life of the country. (Visit to Local market and Silk Carpet factory is included) 2. **Personal Connections**: Interacting with locals fosters genuine connections. You'll learn about their stories, share meals, and perhaps even participate in their daily activities. 3. **Off-the-Beaten-Path**: Unlike typical tourist attractions, this experience takes you off the beaten path. You'll explore hidden gems and discover places that guidebooks often miss. 4. **Cultural Exchange**: It's a two-way street. You'll share your own culture and learn from theirs. Language, customs, and traditions become bridges for understanding. 5. **Memorable Moments**: Cooking together, hearing family anecdotes, etc.
Inclusions
What's included
- Bottled water
- There will be 2 meals. It can be for Lunch or Dinner depending on the starting time of the cooking class. And we will prepare a nice table with yummy dry fruits, salad, etc.
- Air-conditioned vehicle
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Ratings come from 32 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
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5A lovely cooking experience in Samarkand
I really enjoyed learning to make plov and somsa during this cooking class in Samarkand. You can pick 1 dish in addition to the plov to make and it was really hard to choose as all the photo looked amazing. Akram took us to a handmade carpet making workshop and a non/bread making workshop before we went to his house to make plov. We had a great chat with Akram's family as well using google translate and chatgpt. It was a lovely way to experience Uzbek food and culture, and a memorable part of my trip. I’d definitely recommend it!
5Really great experience...
Really great experience learning to cook plov. Akram also provides you with a list of options for your second dish. I chose shashlik. His entire family was so welcoming, and this was definitely one of my favorite experiences. The food was also phenomenal! I appreciated that he was so flexible on a start time for me and even dropped me off at the train station in time for me to catch my train back to Tashkent. You will not find a more hospitable and kind person.
5“More Than a Cooking Class!
サマルカンドで最高の体験のひとつになりました。 Akramさんと市場で食材を買い、パン工房で伝統的なパン作りを見学。その後ご自宅に招いていただき、ご家族や親戚の皆さんと交流しながら、プロフとチュチュヴァラを一緒に作りました。 料理はもちろん、Akramさんとご家族の温かいホスピタリティが本当に素晴らしかったです。単なる料理教室ではなく、ウズベキスタンの家庭や食文化に触れられる貴重な体験でした。心からおすすめします！ One of the best experiences I had in Samarkand! We shopped for ingredients at a local market with Akram, visited a bakery to see traditional bread being made, and then joined his family at their home to cook plov and chuchvara together. Akram and his family were incredibly warm and welcoming. This was much more than a cooking class—it was a wonderful opportunity to experience Uzbek family life, food culture and genuine hospitality. Highly recommended!
5Great Family Sunday Lunch
Akram and his family were very welcoming with at least 3 generations of the wider family there, all hospitable and interesting. The food was delicious and Akram's English was very good so he was able to answer lots of questions we had had about Uzbekistan. We quickly felt like we were guests, not just tourists. I would really recommend this very memorable experience.
5Must do in Uzbekistan if you want to experience the culture
Review This was so much more than a cooking class—it was a genuine Uzbek family experience in a village outside Samarkand. From the moment we arrived, Akram and his wife welcomed us into their home and treated us like family. We were greeted with a huge table filled with delicious food, tea, and sweets. I went to the market with them and we made the national food of plove and the best kebab/shakili i ever had. They were all cooked using real tree wood coal. The food was absolutely delicious, but what made the experience truly special was getting to learn about Uzbek culture and everyday family life. The family was all so welcoming and i felt bad that i dont speak russian as the vibrant father really wanted to communicate with me :-) Akram was a wonderful host, and we had so much fun. We left feeling like we had spent time with old friends rather than simply attended a cooking class. Highly recommended if you want an authentic and memorable Uzbek experience!
5The best of best
The absolute highlight of my trip to Samarkand! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This cooking class was honestly the best experience I had during my entire trip to Samarkand. From the moment we arrived, the family made me feel so welcome. It was so much more than just a cooking class. It was a genuine opportunity to experience Uzbek culture, food, traditions, and family life. We cooked traditional Uzbek plov and khanom together, and everything was explained with so much care and patience. The food was absolutely delicious, but the experience itself was what made it so special. What I loved most was that the family went beyond the cooking class and showed me more of their culture. They took me to see how traditional Uzbek bread is made and also took me to a silk carpet shop, where I could see the incredible craftsmanship that goes into making these beautiful carpets. These little experiences made the day feel so personal and authentic. After cooking, we sat together and enjoyed the food we had prepared. The hospitality was incredible. Everyone was so warm, kind, and welcoming, and I genuinely felt like I was spending the day with a local family rather than simply doing a tourist activity. If you are visiting Samarkand, please do this cooking class! It was easily the highlight of my trip and one of those experiences that I know I will remember for a very long time. I came to Samarkand wanting to experience the culture, and this gave me exactly that. ❤️🇺🇿 Absolutely unforgettable. Highly, highly recommended!
Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 150 travellers
- Operated by
- Samarkand Life Experience
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
How it compares in Samarkand
- Its from-price is 26% below the median of the 178 experiences we list in Samarkand.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 17 of 178.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Samarkand
Samarkand is an ancient Silk Road city in Uzbekistan, famous for blue-tiled domes, grand madrasas and the great Registan square.
Samarkand has been a crossroads of trade routes for more than two thousand years, and in the late fourteenth century it became the capital of Timur's empire. The Registan, a square framed by three madrasas with tiled façades in blue, turquoise and gold, is its best-known sight. The madrasa of Ulugh Beg dates from the 1420s, and the city is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Top-ranked sights in Samarkand: Registan Square, Gur-e-Emir Mausoleum, Shah-i-Zinda Necropolis.
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