Gastronomic travel is a new trend of modernity. Tourists are no longer enough to look at the sights and buy a couple of souvenirs. Travelers want more, namely a bright culinary holiday.
Going to Uzbekistan, ask your tour operator about a good gastronomic map. Peopletravel can be an excellent assistant in the selection and organization of Uzbek tours. To do this, you need to go to the link https://www.people-travels.com/uzbekistan-tours/ and choose the tour you like.
During your stay in Uzbekistan, you have to try 5 types of cakes, if you decide to ride the whole country, sit on Uzbek sofa, enjoy national melodies, hear a lot of fables from restaurateurs and locals, on your «why» and «how?» get recommendations that you shouldn’t use forks, manti are eaten with hands.
And this is only an introduction to the opera «Uzbek cuisine». Now it is difficult to determine who is the author of this or that recipe. And is it so necessary to understand this issue thoroughly? It is more important to keep simple ancient recipes, thereby demonstrating to the whole world the sound of such a multifaceted work as Uzbek cuisine. And pilaf can be called the most juicy note of the Uzbek food.
In Central Asia they say: «If you are poor — you eat pilaf, if rich — you eat only pilaf.» In fact, pilaf is, of course, a festive meal. The art of cooking pilaf is passed from father to son. Without plov there is not a single significant event.
In addition to eating tourists classical tourism with sightseeing still attracts. And first of all tourists aspire to Samarkand.
Samarkand in ancient times was a rich and cultured city. This was written by the chroniclers of Alexander the Great, who captured Marakanda (that was the name of the city at that time) in 329 BC. It was, most likely, not the first devastating invasion experienced by the city, and by no means the last one. In the Middle Ages, Samarkand had already executed the trial and reprisals against its close and distant neighbors, because Tamerlane made it the capital of his vast empire. This was a period of unprecedented cultural and economic prosperity, and the people retained grateful memory of Tamerlane, despite its cruelty. As often happens, all good things are associated with the name of the great conqueror.
Samarkand is the second largest city in Uzbekistan. Once it was famous for its market. Here one could buy everything: clothes, food, dishes, weapons, horses. Now here is another assortment. But still on the local markets you can find anything.
After Samarkand on the map of the traveler, another important historical city, Bukhara, is noted.
Bukhara is often called the forge of Uzbekistan, because it is famous for its skillful blacksmiths and chasers.
Bukhara originated in the 1st century AD. Even in ancient times the city became the most important spiritual, cultural and economic center of Central Asia. Until now, gold-embroidered, silk-weaving, jewelry trades have been preserved here. Wood carvers, blacksmiths, chasers keep secrets of skill, passing them from generation to generation.
Over the decades of Soviet power, many handicrafts in Uzbekistan were almost forgotten. They began to revive only with the independence of the republic and in many respects thanks to the support of UNESCO. In the old Bukhara, one after another, workshops are opened. Chasers, gold embroidered, furriers display their products right on the street.
Once Bukhara was a major trading city. Caravans from Russia, Iran, China came here. Along with the beautiful mosques and madrassas, around which tourists constantly crowd, in the old quarters there are many covered pavilions. Merchants who arrived in Bukhara from different countries, laid out their goods here. Today only local people trade in the pavilions. In general, the whole old city is a huge bazaar for tourists.
The covered Bukhara market of Abdul-khan is known since the XVI century. It is located in the old part of the city, where about 140 architectural monuments are concentrated. These monuments are listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Here, indeed, that there is no step, then another monument: the Kalyan minaret and mosque, the Ark citadel — the residence of the Bukhara emirs, the Lyabi-Khauz complex: three madrasahs and a pond from which the peddlers took water for the city. There are century-old trees with branchy crowns. In their shadow Bukhara dwellers and tourists enjoy the coolness.
Do not postpone the pleasant moments of your life for later. Visit Uzbekistan, swallow the eastern color and take a piece of warm, hospitable Uzbekistan to your homes.