Craft & Culture: Bukhara's Old Town and Artisans in One Day
A guided walk with a licensed guide through workshops and landmarks, plus two hands-on classes: handmade paper and plov or miniature painting.
- $150 per person
- 360 min
- When: Daily, by booking
A full day in Bukhara for travellers who want to see the city from the inside. First, a walk with a licensed guide through the old town: Lyabi-Hauz, the trading domes, madrasas and the workshops where copper chasers, painters and weavers still work.
Then a handmade paper workshop: you'll turn mulberry fibres into your own sheet and polish it the way medieval workshops did. The second class is your choice: plov “oshi sofi” cooked in a cauldron — with lunch from what you made — or Bukhara miniature painting with local miniaturists.
About six hours in total: two hours of guided walking and two hours for each workshop. We arrange the route, the masters and the materials, and you take home what you make.
What's included
- Old town walk with a licensed guide
- Handmade paper workshop
- Second workshop of your choice: plov or miniature painting
- All materials and ingredients
- Plov lunch if you choose the cooking class
- Tea and sweets