The Chorsu Bazaar is one of the largest bazaars in Central Asia. Under seven huge domes covered with colored glazed bricks there are pavilions in which merchants and farmers sell their products. Fruit and vegetable sections intoxicate visitors with an abundance and variety of goods. The stalls have heaps of red apples and juicy-tasting pears, peaches, plums, large quinces, and bunches of black, pink, and amber-colored sweet grapes. The yellow figs are carefully covered with green leaves. Pomegranates with ruby red are piled in large baskets Seeds and orange-red persimmons. There are also mountains of giant watermelons and pineapples, fragrant melons. In these pavilions, customers are wrapped in a cloud of spicy aromas. There is saffron and cinnamon, red and black pepper, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, caraway and cumin, which are used for real Uzbek plow. The Chorsu Bazaar is not only the largest, but also the oldest in the region. More than 2,000 years ago, residential areas for craftsmen were built in this suburb of Tashkent, then known as “Chach”. Here, at the crossroads of nomadic and sedentary tribes, the market developed in antiquity, where farmers, nomads and traders exchanged and traded their unusual goods. Through every gate of the city, the entrance to Tashkent from the Great Silk Road, crossed the paths and met at this place. The bazaar was not only a trading place, but also a kind of social and societal meeting place where people got to know each other and received news. As in the old days, the Chorsu Bazaar is now filled with handicraft shops where artisans manufacture their artful products and offer them for sale immediately. The following goods are offered: traditional jewelry, gold embroidery, caftans, suzani tapestries, knives, wicker baskets, musical instruments and metal bowls of various sizes. The coveted carpets and tapestries from Khiva, Samarkand and Bukhara are sold in the carpet department of the bazaar. The Chorsu Bazaar is full of fabulous wealth and exotic goods, opens its doors with a hearty "Khush kelibsiz!" - "Welcome!"
