Crafted in Uzbekistan
September 6, 2026|10 days
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Cultural Tour
A 10-Day Cultural Workshop Journey through Uzbekistan
Crafted in Uzbekistan is our full cultural workshop journey across Uzbekistan — a 10-day route through Tashkent, Khiva, Bukhara, and Samarkand, designed for travelers who want to experience the country through its craft, food, architecture, and living traditions.
September 6, 2026|10 days
Tour Overview
Experience Uzbekistan through its most beautiful living traditions — craft, food, architecture, and hospitality.
Crafted in Uzbekistan is our full cultural workshop journey across Uzbekistan — a 10-day route through Tashkent, Khiva, Bukhara, and Samarkand, designed for travelers who want to experience the country through its craft, food, architecture, and living traditions.
This journey moves through four of Uzbekistan’s most meaningful cities, each with its own atmosphere and artistic identity. Tashkent brings the warmth of everyday life: bread from the tandir, clay shaped by hand, Chorsu Bazaar, old neighborhoods, and the creative world of Navruz Park. Khiva offers the feeling of a desert fairytale, where carved wooden columns, silk traditions, blue minarets, and the walled streets of Ichan Kala make the past feel close enough to touch.
In Bukhara, the experience becomes softer and more intimate. Guests wander through trading domes, old madrasahs, sacred monuments, and quiet courtyards before sitting with local artisans to discover the symbolism of suzani embroidery. Samarkand brings the grandeur of the Silk Road: Registan, Gur-Emir, Shah-i-Zinda, Bibi-Khanum, handmade paper in Konigil, Uzbek wine, and plov cooked slowly over fire.
This is the full Uzbekistan experience for travelers who want more than sightseeing. It is a journey of textures, flavors, workshops, monuments, conversations, and human connection. Guests leave with handmade memories, beautiful encounters, and the feeling of having travelled through Uzbekistan not as spectators, but as welcomed guests inside its living culture.
10 days
Tashkent → Samarkand → Bukhara → Khiva
Tour Highlights
What stays with you, long after the plane home
Moments that define the week. None are staged. All are repeatable on any street corner in the old city — once you know who to ask.
- 01Experience Uzbekistan through its most beautiful living traditions — craft, food, architecture, and hospitality.
- 02Travel the full cultural route from Tashkent to Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand.
- 03Step inside Uzbekistan’s living craft traditions, from ceramics and wood carving to suzani, silk, paper-making, and plov.
- 04Explore the country’s most atmospheric places, including Ichan Kala, Registan, Shah-i-Zinda, Chorsu Bazaar, and Bukhara’s trading domes.
- 05Share warm, personal moments with local artisans, hosts, and guides who bring each tradition to life.
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Tashkent
Old mahallas, the tandir, the bazaar
02
Samarkand
Tile, paper, plov, blue domes
03
Bukhara
Trading domes, carpets, miniatures
04
Khiva
Walled city, woodcraft, ceramics
Why we're different
Three reasons to travel with Craft & Culture
We are not a tour company. We are a small team who believe travel can preserve a tradition — but only if it's slow, small, and built on real relationships.
Founded by a husband-wife team
Yusufbek and Julia have spent three years building trust with master artisans across five cities. They show up to workshops with you — not as a tour operator dropping off guests, but as friends introducing friends.
Eight to ten guests, never more
Small groups mean genuine connection — with the craft, the artisan, and the place. You sit at the loom yourself. You shape the bread yourself. Nothing is performed.
Real workshops, real hands
No staged demos, no costume-piece tours. The studios you visit are working studios, the kitchens are family kitchens, and the people teaching you are the ones who do this every day for a living.
Itinerary
Day by Day
*On rare occasions, this itinerary may change.
Day 1
Tashkent: Bread, Clay & Everyday Traditions
Day 0 — Welcome to Tashkent
Arrival in Uzbekistan’s vibrant capital, where your journey begins with an airport pick-up and transfer to your hotel. Depending on your flight time, the schedule can stay flexible, giving you time to rest, settle in, and prepare for the cultural adventure ahead.
Day 1 The journey begins in Tashkent with the spiritual atmosphere of the Khast Imam Complex, followed by a hands-on Uzbek bread-making workshop, where guests shape, stamp, and bake traditional non in a clay tandir oven.
The route continues through the colors and energy of Chorsu Bazaar, then to Navruz Park, where guests discover Uzbekistan’s handmade traditions, from dolls and carpets to suzani embroidery and chapans. A pottery workshop gives guests the chance to create with their own hands before the day closes with Mustakillik Square, Amir Temur Square, and the iconic Hotel Uzbekistan.
Meals Breakfast and lunch
Postcards from the road
People love our Uzbekistan
What travellers say
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I came for the monuments. I left thinking about the master ceramicist's hands and the smell of the tandir at dawn.
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Small group, deep care. Our hosts knew every artisan by name — and the artisans knew them.
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The plov afternoon alone was worth the trip. I haven't stopped talking about it.
Reserve your seat
Crafted in Uzbekistan
We open exactly one departure of this journey per season. Reserve with a deposit, balance 90 days before departure.
Book this tour
Reserve with a per-person deposit. Final balance due 90 days before departure.
From, per person$2,150
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Looking for a private trip?
In addition to our small-group departures, we design private journeys for couples, families, and small groups who want something built just for them. Our travel designers know the artisans, the seasons, and the quiet corners that don't make it into guidebooks — ready to craft your next adventure.
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Nights in carefully selected boutique hotels with breakfast included; all hands-on craft workshops; cultural experiences with master artisans; guided cultural exploration in the cities listed; entrance tickets to all monuments; high-speed train tickets between cities; all private transfers; a dedicated local host and expert guide throughout; all workshop tools and materials, with handmade pieces to keep.
International flights; visa fees if required for your nationality; travel insurance; lunches and dinners not listed in the itinerary; alcoholic drinks and personal beverages; optional upgrades.
Citizens of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the EU and many other countries can enter Uzbekistan visa-free for stays of up to 30 days. Other travellers can apply for a fast e-visa online. Please check requirements for your passport before booking.
Moderate — there is walking in historic city centres, bazaars and old neighbourhoods. The craft workshops are beginner-friendly and the pace is unhurried. There are no long hikes or strenuous activities.
Curious travellers, solo visitors, couples, families and small groups of friends who want cultural depth rather than checklists. The tour is suitable for adults of all ages; children twelve and over are welcome with a parent.
A per-person deposit secures your spot. Final balance is due 90 days before departure. Cancellations more than 90 days out forfeit the deposit; 60–90 days, 50% of total; under 60 days, full price. We strongly recommend travel insurance.
From
$2,150
/ per person