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RocApply Tips:
As with other facets of life in Uzbekistani, food, and grocery are also sold in their local currency, so ensure to make all the necessary conversions and move around with a little local cash on you. Many of the establishments only accept the US dollar.
The market is a very popular and crowded place to, so it is important to watch your wallet.
As a newcomer, some of the names of the items might confuse you, please use any online translator services to check the correct Russian word for whatever you are searching for.
Always ask for help or directions from fellow students and if you can't find any around you then ask even the locals they are always happy to assist foreigners and visitors.
Uzbek plov – yes!
Halva and sweetest melon – certainly!
Embroidered skullcap with gold threads? You’re right!
And what’s about carpets, natural silk and souvenir knifes? Yes, this all you can find in Uzbekistan – country, which is famous by its hospitality. For shopping we recommend to visit oriental bazaar, where you can buy everything what you want. Trade begins from early morning and doesn’t stop until evening.
Fresh fruit, vegetables, dried fruit, sweets and spices you can buy in low price. Also you can bargain to take extra discount. But it’s not as simple as you suppose. Bargain is something from impudence, bluff and ability to smile and deal with seller. You can check this ability during your tour to Uzbekistan! Be sure – when you come to bazaar, you cannot go away without purchase. This place can be also godsend for photographer, who can take unique opportunity to photograph lively stories.
What to buy?
Tourists mostly are interested in handicrafts. It’s not only handmade souvenirs to present, butluxurious oriental carpets with complicated patterns, ceramics, uzbeksuzane and unusual jewelry. Men can be attracted by chust and shahristan knifes, which are elegant and rich decorated. And what’s about hookah with special patterns? For women we can recommend luxurious karakul fur coats made by local masters.
Do you want to see how souvenirs are created? We offer you to visit handicraftsmen in their studios. And such tour to Uzbekistan will help you to see the country from the other side.
Handicrafts may be purchased at specialized art workshops in all the cities of Uzbekistan. Every year a growing number of tourists to Uzbekistan stipulate the demand for manual craft products. Everyone wants to take home not only vivid impressions but also an original souvenir. Shops offer a wide choice of articles made of semi-precious stone; carved and painted wood, bone of horn, embroidered skull-caps, decorative wall-hanging Suzanne, ceramics, miniatures, varieties of hand-made silk, including khan atlas, etc. The best place to experience the "life in the East" is bazaar. The bazaars of Bukhara and Samarqand offer goods ranging from herbs and spices to carpets. Famous "Bukhara" carpets are actually Turkmen products that have been sold for centuries in Bukhara's carpet bazaars. Many museums have small retail shops with a variety of modern wares and some original items as well. Travelers in Uzbekistan will be pleasantly surprised by the interesting jewelers, clothing and local handicrafts. Books, postcards and maps are other popular souvenirs. There are restrictions on exporting carpets from the country, ask your Tour Guide for detailed up-to-date information on this matter, before purchasing one. The most typically Uzbek souvenir you can pick up is a hat. If you buy one in Shakrisabz, it shouldn't cost you more than a dollar.
The craftsmen of Uzbekistan have many skills, including engraving on copper, wood and plaster-based material. They excel in the arts of making jewellery; carpet weaving; ceramics; ornamental embroidery, gold embroidery; decorative currying of tanned leather; spinning silk; making decorative braids; inlay work on musical instruments; painting on papier-mâché; the creation of decorative boxes to hold locally grown tobacco; basket weaving; and making objects from wood such as cradles, chests and much more.
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