Eastern Dastarkhan — Gastronomic Tour — 7 Days
You can’t understand Uzbek cuisine from one plov at a random teahouse — every city has its own recipe, its own method, its own point of pride. This tour moves from dish to dish: you cook three different styles of plov with your own hands, taste each city’s specialty, and discover why Tashkent plov and Samarkand plov are, in practice, two different worlds.
Route
Tashkent → Samarkand → Gijduvan → Bukhara.
Why this tour
- The richest gastronomic format in our catalog — full board for the entire trip, no need to hunt for restaurants yourself.
- Three plov masterclasses — Tashkent, Samarkand, and Bukhara’s “Oshi-sofi” — so you feel the difference with your own hands, not just your taste buds.
- A wine tasting at the Bagizagan winery in Samarkand — Uzbek winemaking is older than most travelers assume.
- A tea ceremony at the “Spices of the Silk Road” house in Bukhara — a quiet contrast after days packed with sightseeing and food.
Day by day
- Arrival in Tashkent, check-in, free evening.
- Tashkent: old town, lunch at the “Besh Qazon” plov center, dinner with a mashkhurda soup and khanum tasting.
- “Sharq” train to Samarkand, lunch with Samarkand-style kebabs, a tour: Registan Square, the Gur-Emir mausoleum. Dinner and a manty masterclass.
- Samarkand: the Bibi-Khanym mosque, Siyob bazaar, lunch with Samarkand-style plov, the Konigil craftsmen’s village, a wine tasting at the Bagizagan winery. Dinner with a dimlama tasting.
- Drive to Gijduvan — a pottery masterclass, lunch with Gijduvan-style kebabs. Bukhara: the Lyab-i Hauz ensemble. Dinner with kazan-kabob.
- Bukhara: the Ark fortress, the Poi-Kalyan ensemble, lunch with shurpa soup and dolma, a tea ceremony at the “Spices of the Silk Road” tea house, a Bukharan “Oshi-sofi” plov masterclass.
- Transfer to Bukhara airport, departure.
Included (placeholder — confirm before publishing)
- Full board for the whole tour
- Tashkent–Samarkand “Sharq” train ticket
- Wine tasting, tea ceremony, plov, manty and pottery masterclasses
- Guide throughout the route
Not included
- International flights, insurance
- Alcohol beyond the tasting program
Confirmed hotel categories, guaranteed departure dates and the final price are arranged with your travel consultant at booking.
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