PRIVATE Siab Bazaar Tour & Uzbek Home Cooking Class in Samarkand
- 4 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
After being picked up from your hotel explore Samarkand’s famous Siab Bazaar, meet local vendors, and select fresh ingredients for your cooking class. Visit a traditional tandir bakery before heading to a local family home in the countryside for a hands-on Uzbek cooking class. Learn to prepare authentic dishes such as plov, samsa, shashlik, lagman, or manti using traditional family recipes. Share the meal you’ve prepared, accompanied by seasonal fruit, Uzbek sweets, and tea.
Inclusions
What's included
- Private Uzbek cooking class in a local home
- Hotel pick up and drop off
- Authentic home-cooked meal with a local family
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Traveling Spoon
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Menu may vary depending on the season
- Akram can accommodate a lactose free, gluten free, vegetarian or vegan diet, if informed in advance. If any travelers in your party have any allergies, dietary restrictions or cooking preferences please advise at time of booking.
- The price includes the cost of return transportation from central Samarkand hotels. Please include your hotel name and address when booking the experience online.
- This authentic Uzbek cooking experience in Samarkand is perfect for large groups and families with children.
How it compares in Samarkand
- Its from-price is 28% below the median of the 178 experiences we list in Samarkand.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- 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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