We had lunch in Nukus after visiting the Savitsky Museum. Lunch was in a private home of a Karakalpak family. We don’t know if our tour company didn’t trust the restaurants or what but we really enjoyed our meal in a family setting.

The first photo was entering the home. I included this because I found the layout interesting. We first saw a big wall from the outside. We went through a door to get to this point. The wall is the wall on the left. I’m not sure why such a high wall with nothing inside of it but the house. In other areas where we saw this – and it was common – they had gardens and animals inside the wall. It didn’t matter, I just found it interesting.

You can see the table as we arrived in the second photo. We started out with lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, several kinds of nuts, and dried fruits. We were served a big meal and it was all very good and fresh.

The Karakalpak woman of the house is in the third photo and you can see the other end of the dining room.

We had Karakalpak music with lunch and they featured throat singing by the guy on the right. The only other time we have heard throat singing was in Mongolia.

At some point, we got (had) to get up and dance. In addition to Vicky, I had two other partners who you can see in the last photo. These were the daughters of the woman in the third photo.