11 Days Uzbekistan Tour

Tashkent

Arrive at Tashkent international airport. Driver will pick up and take you to your hotel.

5 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Tashkent

12.00 Transfer to sightseeing to city with a break to the lunch: MingUrik is an ancient settlement on the territory of Tashkent (Legend says that once the mighty city of Chach towered on this place. But the city was haunted by misfortunes, it burned in fires more than once, as the invaders constantly disturbed its peace. Each time, the city rose from the ashes, but one day the inhabitants decided to leave this cursed place forever and settle elsewhere). Complex Hazrati Imam in the Old city (The Qur'an of Uthman, or the Qur'an of Uthman, or the Samarkand Kufic Qur'an, is the oldest surviving manuscript of the Qur'an, believed to have been stained with the blood of the third caliph, Uthman. It is kept in Tashkent in the Muyi Muborak Madrasah, which is part of the Ensemble of Hazrati Imam).

6 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Tashkent

Transportation from hotel to airport. Flight from Tashkent to Bukhara.

3 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Bukhara

City tour around Bukhara: Ark Citadel (VI-XX cc), Monument of medieval Bukhara – Bolo Hauz Ensemble, Poi Kalyan ensemble (XII-XIX cc), Miri Arab madrasah, Ulugbek madrasah, Abdulazizkhan madrasah, Shopping Mall (Toki Zargaron, Toki Telpak Furrushon, Toki Saraffon), Lyabi-Hauz (It’s the largest artificial reservoir of medieval Bukhara)

4 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Bukhara

City tour around Bukhara: Chashma-Ayub (1380-1384/85) mausoleum, Shopping Mall (Toki Zargaron, Toki Telpak Furrushon, Toki Saraffon), Sitorai Mohi Hosa (country residence of Bukhara Amirs)

3 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Aykent - Sixty kilometers from Bukhara are the ruins of the Paykend settlement, occupying an area of about twenty hectares. Some sources say that Paykend, unlike other cities of Central Asia, did not have a ruler. It was a kind of "merchant republic" where the silk trade flourished. But after the conquest of Central Asia by the Arabs, Paykent became in the 8th century one of the largest centers of the Bukhara oasis for the fight against nomads. Paykent is often referred to as the "Pompeii of Asia". The city was swallowed up by the desert, which explains the fact that it, gradually covered with sand, is well preserved.

4 Hours • Admission Ticket Included

Samarkand

Transfer from hotel to train station. Train from Bukhara to Samarkand. Transfer from hotel to hotel.

5 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Samarkand

Samarkand is one of the oldest cities in the world, founded, according to archaeological data, in the middle of the 8th century BC. e. (Ancient Marakanda), capital of the Timurid state, became the first capital of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924. For more than 2 millennia, the city was a key point on the Great Silk Road between China and Europe, as well as one of the main centers of science in the medieval East. City tour around Samarkand with a break to the lunch: Shakhi Zinda Necropolis – the Burial places of Tamerlan’s relatives (XII-XVI cc), Gur Emir - Mausoleum with the tomb of Tamerlan (XIV-XV cc), Mosque Bibi Khanim (XV cc), Place of Registan (XV-XVII cc). Visiting Bagizagan Winery in the suburbs of Samarkand + tasting of Uzbek wines and cognacs.

7 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Nurata

Camel riding. Picnic on the lake of Aydarkul. Fishing in the lake.

7 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Samarkand

Visiting the ruins of ancient capital of Samarkand with a break to the lunch – Afrosiab and Historical museum, Burial place of Saint Doniyor. The Prophet Daniel is revered by three world religions. He is one of the four great prophets of Israel in Judaism, a prophet whose Book was included in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible and a prophet in the Islamic tradition. Khoja Daniyar (Daniel) was born in Jerusalem in 603 BC. and came from the line of kings David and Solomon. When Israel in 586 B.C. was captured by the king of Babylonia, Nebuchadnezzar. The place is an object of pilgrimage, both for local residents and visitors from all over the world. In 1996, the late Patriarch of All Rus' Alexy II, who arrived in Samarkand, visited the Mausoleum and consecrated it. They say that after the consecration, the pistachio tree, which was considered dry, bloomed again near the Mausoleum, Mirzo Ulugbek Observatory, bazaar.

7 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Tashkent

Transfer from hotel to train station. Train from Samarkand to Tashkent. Transfer from hotel to hotel.

5 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Tashkent

City tour around Tashkent with a break to thee lunch: Shohidlar hotirasi, monument "Courage", Place of Independence, Temur square, Museum of dynasty Temurids, Theatal area

7 Hours • Admission Ticket Free

Tashkent

Transfer from hotel to airport

5 Hours • Admission Ticket Free