Tours to Uzbekistan

Tours to Uzbekistan

Tashkent
Tashkent
Khiva
Bukhara
Bukhara
Yurt camp
Aydarkul
Samarkand
Samarkand

Uzbek colours

Tour summary:

This is a cultural classic tour combined with yurts and villages, choosing this trip you will have a chance to see all aspects of local Uzbek life.

Tour itinerary:
Day 1: Tashkent

Arrival to Tashkent. Meeting at the airport by English speaking guide. Accommodation to the hotel.

The visit of sightseeings of the capital:

  • Khazrati Imam complex including constructions of different centuries
  • Chorsu bazar
  • Independence square
  • Timur`s square

Overnight in Tashkent.

Day 2: Tashkent - Urgench - Khiva

Breakfast . Transfer to the airport and flight to Urgench at 7:00. Accommodation to the hotel. The visit of sightseeings of the city considered as (Museum under the sky):

  • Ichan-Kala internal city surrounded by walls rebuilt in XIX century
  • Different wonderful Palaces of governors who ever ruled in Khiva
  • Medressahs of Mokhammed Rakhimkhan and M. Aminkhan
  • Pakhlavan Makhmoud’s mausoleum

Overnight in Khiva.

Day 3: Khiva – Boukhara

Breakfast. Drive to Bukhara which is famous under the name (Kubbat al Islam)-the dome of Islam. (450 km).

Lunch-picnic on the way in desert Kyzylkum the biggest in Central Asia. Arrival at the evening. Accommodation to the hotel. Free -time.

Overnight in Bukhara.

Day 4: Boukhara

Breakfast.

  • Bolo khauz mosque famous as a mosque of emirs “ title of governors”
  • Ark fortress residence of emirs
  • Ismail Samanid’s mausoleum the most ancient historical building of Bukhara X -century
  • Chashma Ayub mausoleum with the museum of water’s history of region.

Overnight in Bukhara.

Day 5: Boukhara

Breakfast.

  • Bakhavuddin Nakshbandi mausoleum
  • Sitorai Mokhi Khosa palace
  • Kalon minaret with Kalon mosque
  • Liabi-Khauz complex

Overnight in Bukhara.

Day 6: Bukhara - Aydarkul

Breakfast. Drive to Aydarkul lake 220 km, on the way to the lake the visit of the fortress of Alexander the Great in Nurota.

Arrival to yurt camps accommodation to the yurts, riding the camels.

Dinner. The kazak concert around a bonfire. Overnight in yurts.

Day 7: Aydarkul - Asraf

Breakfast. Drive to Asraf village 60 km from the yurts. Accommodation to the guesthouse opened by local tadjik family. The walking tour along the village.

Dinner. Overnight in guesthouse.

Day 8: Asraf village - Samarkand

Breakfast. Drive to Samarkand historical capital which is 2750 years old.

Accommodation in the hotel The visit of sightseeings of the city:

  • Ulugbek’s observatory the first in Central Asia built in XV century
  • Saint Daniel’ mausoleum
  • Shakhi-Zinda mausoleum where you can see the tomb of Kussam ibn Abbas who was a cousin of prophet Mokhammed
  • Local bazaar

Overnight in Samarkand.

Day 9: Samarkand

Breakfast.

  • Gur Emir mausoleum – the sepulture of Timurid’s dynasty
  • Reghistan place –historical center , ancient crossroad of all streets, consists of 3 medrassahs of XV-XVII century
  • Bibikhanum mosque built for a beloved wife of Great Timur
  • Free-time
Day 10: Samarkand - Shakhrisabz - Samarkand

Breakfast. Drive to Shakhrisabz native city of Great Timur. Accommodation to the hotel. The visit of sightseeings of the city:

  • Aksaray palace: a summer residence of Great Timur
  • Dorut – Tilovat complex
  • Dorus – Siadat complex with empty grave of Timur

Drive back to Samarkand.

Overnight in Samarkand.

Day 11: Samarkand - Tashkent

Breakfast. Konighil paper factory where you can see the process of making paper with an old method. Free-time at the evening transfer to railway station to take a fast train to Tashkent.

Overnight in Tashkent.

Day 12: Tashkent

Breakfast. Transfer to the airport and flight back home.