Best of Osh

Walking, Food, and Cultural Tours
in Osh, Kyrgyzstan

Join our city tours and visit the best sights, taste the best food and experience the best activities

Experiential

Be practically involved and personally interact with people, traditions and daily activities

Entertaining

not stand-up comedy, but there will be some jokes, acting and impressions (at least attempted).

Intellectual

tours are not only fun, but educational. Less data – only the most interesting facts and stories

Reasonably priced

As a conventional Central Asian, I have to convince you that you are getting a lot for what you pay!

Walking, Food and Cultural Tours in Osh

Dive into the local culture, cuisine and history

This monument is explored during the Osh city walking tour

Walking Osh

  • Introduction to Osh 101
  • Stories, culture and architecture
  • Sampling national drinks and honey

Bread-Baking Tour

  • A visit to Osh's Baker Street
  • Shape and bake your flat bread
  • Traditional Osh breakfast in a tea house
culinary tours in Osh

Plov Cooking 101

  • Cook your pLOVE from scratch
  • Meet the local family, neighborhood
  • Enjoy plov in a traditional atmosphere
Babur's House on top of Sulaiman-Too Mountain is a must-do sightseeing in Osh

Sulaiman-Too Tour

  • Exploring the major sight of Osh city
  • History, legends and rituals
  • Panoramic sceneries and cave museum
eat the best food in Osh

Food Tour

  • Food odyssey of a culinary capital
  • Varieties of manty, kebab and samosa
  • National drinks and local fruits
Osh baking tour is accompanied by tandyr making process

Customized Tours

  • Offer your topic of interest
  • Get my response
  • Discover Osh from unique perspective

Online Cooking Classes

Join us right from your kitchen and cook the popular dishes of Central Asia

Plov-cooking class

Cook the signature dish of Central Asia with simple recipe and easy-to-find ingredients. 

  • Schedule:
    Saturday and Sunday
    or upon request
  • Starting time(s)
    15:00 GMT +2
    09:00 GMT -4

Samsa baking class

Shape and bake one of the favorite dishes of Central Asia – homemade samsa (aka sambusa, samosa).

  • Schedule:
    Sunday
    or upon request
  • Starting time(s)
    15:00 GMT +2
    09:00 GMT -4

Uzbek soup

On cold autumn and winter days, warm your body and soul with delicious, fragrant, and filling Uzbek soups.

  • Schedule:
    upon request
  • Starting time(s)
    15:00 GMT +2
    09:00 GMT -4

Reviews from Tripadvisor

Atabek, the founder of Best of Osh, gave us a tour through some districts of Osh - off the tracks, with a lot of fascinating insights and great knowledge. He answered all questions in perfect English. He's both an Osh native and a person who is well informed about the international discourse in the history of this fascinating region shaped by old traditions, Soviet Union and independent Kyrgyzstan
Michael
Germany
Osh is a city with a lot of history. If you want to know more about this, then a tour with Atabak is a great experience. Atabek speaks English very well, knows a lot about the city of Osh, is enthusiastic, friendly and a very good storyteller. You really get what you pay for. I recommend him.
Margarit
Netherlands
Atabek is a great young entrepreneur bringing life to the tourism scene in Osh. We had a fantastic day with him shopping ingredients, learning about the local history during a district walk, and cooling yummy Plov with his very welcoming family in the outskirts of the city. It was clearly the best experience in Osh we had, and by far the most delicious Plov we had in all central asia. Highly recommended
Schdero
Switzerland

Why You Should Visit Osh?

Travelers’ hub since bronze age

Osh is an incredibly interesting city with its ancient history, diverse culture, delectable cuisine and geographic location. Therefore, thousands of foreigners visit Osh each year. 

Mostly, the travelers are attracted to Osh’s ancientness and the legacy of the Great Silk Road. It also serves as the best transit point to Pamir Highway and China’s Kashgar. Osh borders with Uzbekistan what makes it a great spot to continue the journey to the historical cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva. 

And finally, Osh is the most important administrative center of the south of Kyrgyzstan what makes it the place of expats’ deployment and business trips.

So which group do you belong to?

Well, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you can make your time more memorable in Osh by exploring it as a unique travel destination. Dive into a blend of diverse cultures, taste one of the best cuisines of Central Asia and participate in the local lifestyle. All of this can be experienced on your own. There is an abundance of information in travel guides and the city is full of hospitable people who are willing to help you.

However, if you are willing to take your journey to another level and deepen your experience, I offer my tours to suit your interests and create long-lasting memories.

About "Best of Osh"

Hey! My name is Atabek. I’m an Osh native and am so obsessed with my hometown that I decided to start “Best of Osh” as a way to show people its most incredible features.

My background is in political science (and if it’s important, you should know that I’m a neo-classical realist, constructivist, and liberal all in one), but I left the dark realm of politics behind to work in tourism several years ago. As I see it, tourism is one of the most effective forms of Joseph Nye’s soft power — it generates more benefits of friendship, dialogue, and prosperity than most government-sponsored programs.

Building up Kyrgyzstan’s soft power has served as the primary motivation for my tours and this company. My goal is to introduce my country, people, culture and daily life to you in the most entertaining, experiential and delicious ways (and it’s also a great excuse to eat my favorite foods and visit my favorite spots).

Please get in touch! You can reach me through the contact form and social media embedded below!

Ask your questions!