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Duration: 11 days – 10 nights

Day 1.Tashkent

Arrival in Tashkent.

Meeting with a tour assistant. Transfer and accommodation at the hotel.

Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 2. Tashkent - Chimgan - Tashkent

Breakfast at the hotel. The trip to Chimgan. The road passes the foot of the Tien Shan.

The picturesque road that climbs to Chorbag passes through Kyrgyz village.

At the local small bazaar, you can buy traditional sweets, drink mare's milk and Kurt.

The route goes to the picturesque mountain gorge "Beldersay" where cableway is located.  Climbing by cableway takes about 20 - 25 minutes. The length of the road is 3.5 km, height up to 2010 m above the sea level. You can walk up to the next peaks where a beautiful view of the mountain chain of peaks will open and after descend back by cableway. In addition, if you wish, you can walk down along the trail, but for this, you will need comfortable shoes.  The descent on foot takes about one hour. After "Beldersay" you pass to Chimgan, where is given the opportunity of horseback riding, quad biking, and paragliding. Then you pass through the Charvak reservoir.

Transfer to Tashkent

Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 3. Tashkent - Urgench - Topraq-Kala – Ayaz-Kala – Khiva

Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the Tashkent Airport for a flight to Urgench.

  A full day tour to the archeological jewelry and heritage of Karakalpakistan – Topraq-Kala and Ayaz-Kala. Transfer to a distance of 100 km and on-foot excursion to the ruins of the Fortresses (Vi-VIII) where the movie “Gengis Khan” was shot. Visit the same-named lake. Lunch at yurt camp.

Return to Khiva in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 4.  Khiva

Breakfast at the hotel. 

A full day tour in Khiva, the most ancient and conserved city on the “silk road”. Visit to the Mohammed Amin Khan Madrassah, the large stone of the city, the Kelle Minor Minaret, the ancient Kuhna Ark fortress built in the XII century and then extended during the XVII century, there is a harem, a mint, astable, an arsenal, a summer mosque; the Mausoleum of Pakhlavan Mahmud, the patron saint of Khiva. 

Lunch in a private house. 

Visit the Islam Khoja Madrassah and Minaret, the most recent monument of Khiva; the Juma Mosque, interesting for its 213 wood columns (3,15m high); the Tosh Howli (“Stone House”); the Allah Kuli Khan Madrassah, Bazaar, and Caravanserai.

Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 5.Khiva – Bukhara

Breakfast at the hotel early in the morning. Transfer to Bukhara through the Kyzyl-Kum Desert (almost 500 km) ( optional Transfer by car can be replaced by flight). Arrival in the noon. 

Lunch at a private house.

In Bukhara, you can visit the Masterclass on making papier-mâché toys.

Papier-mâché is not difficult but requires accuracy and patience, and as a result, by your own hands, you can create a variety of things, such as decorative elements of the interior, jewelry boxes, piggy banks, figurines, masks, dolls, rattles and much more.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to visit a folklore show in Madrasah Nadir Devanbegi.

Dinner and overnight at hotel. 

Day 6. Bukhara

Breakfast at the hotel.

A full day of city sightseeing. Visit to the Poi-Kalon Complex, the square separating the Mir-I-Arab Madrassah and the Kalon Mosque; the Kalon Minaret (“grand” from Tajik), one of the Bukhara’s symbols of 47m high (XII), three bazaars - Taqi Zargaron,Taqi Telpak Furushon and Taqi Sarrafon, the Magok-I-Atori Mosque, the remains of Buddhism monastery, a temple and a mosque, the Nadir Divanbegi Madrassah, built in XVII, the Kukeldash Madrassah, one of the greatest Islamic schools of Central Asia.

 Lunch in a private house. 

In the afternoon visit the Ark Fortress, a city-in-city, ancient as Bukhara itself, having served as the residence of Bukhara’s rulers for a millennium; the Bolo Hauz Mosque, the Ismail Samani Mausoleum (IXX), one of the most stylish constructions of Central Asia.

 Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 7. Bukhara

Breakfast at the hotel.

In the morning a visit to the religious complex where the Naqshbandi Mausoleum, the necropolis of Samarkand and Bukhara rulers and noblemen are; visiting mosques, the madrassah, and the minaret. Visit the summer residence of Said Alim Khan, the last Emir of Bukhara, the Sitora-I-Mokhi Khossa Palace and the entrance of the Chor Minor Madrassah.

 Lunch at restaurant. 

Free time for recreation in the afternoon. 

Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 8. Bukhara - Sarmishsay Samarkand

Breakfast. Transfer to Nurata.

Along the way, you will visit the workshop of Gijduvan potter, see the remains of a caravanserai Rabat Malik and store water Sardoba and visit Sarmishsay tract, where on the rocks are represented hunting scenes belonging to the Bronze Age.

Lunch in the national house.

Transfer to Samarkand

Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 9. Samarkand

Breakfast at the hotel.

 A full day of city sightseeing. Visit the Ulugbek Observatory (XV), where the remains of grand astrolabe for observation of star position and the Afrasiab ruins with the museum; the Shakhi Zinda - the necropolis of Samarkand rulers and noblemen, the Bibi Khanym Mosque (XV) and the Siab Bazaar.

 Lunch in a restaurant.

In the afternoon visit to the Gur Emir (from Tajik: “Tomb of Emir”), the Mausoleum of Temur and his descendants (XV), Registan Square.

Visit the theatrical show "EL MEROSI".

Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 10. Samarkand

Breakfast at the hotel.

 Visit the private fabric, the only one in Central Asia that produces silk paper.

Lunch in a restaurant.

 In the afternoon visit to the religious complex of Al-Bukhari, the biggest traditionalist of the whole Islam world.

Also, you will visit the theatrical clothes show of designer Valentina Romanenko. For her models, she uses silk and hand-woven fabrics (you will have an opportunity to purchase it).

 Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 11. Samarkand - Tashkent

Breakfast at the hotel.

Transfer to Tashkent.

 Lunch at restaurant. City sightseeing: Amir Temur Square, Independence Square, the Alisher Navoi Theater, completed in 1947 by Japanese prisoners, the Museum of Applied Arts.

Farewell dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 12. Tashkent

Breakfast at the hotel.

Transfer to the airport.

Our company will be glad to develop an individual program for you, that will fit your budget!

Cost of the tour

Number of persons Price per person (USD)
21015
4852
6730
8669

The cost includes

  • Accommodation at 3* hotels in all cities;
  • Meals: BB ;
  • Visa support;
  • All transfers in a comfortable car with air conditioning;
  • All excursions according to the program;
  • English speaking guide;
  • Air tickets Tashkent – Urgench.

Cost does not include

  • Tips to guides and drivers;
  • Lunch and Dinner;
  • Master class and theatrical show;
  • Entrance tickets;
  • Photo & video camera fees;
  • Early check-in and late check-out in hotel;
  • International flight ticket.