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An opportunity of visiting most popular touristic sights of Uzbekistan!
Day 1 Tashkent-Nukus
According to timing of arrival in Tashkent, The guests will be met by guide and driver. Check-in to hotel. Transfer to the hotel where immediate check-in has been arranged. Free time to fresh up. Panoramic city tour in the capital of Uzbekistan. Visit the old city: including Khasti Imam with Barak-Khan Madrasah, the mausoleum and mosque Kaffal Chochiy Tilla Shaykh. Visit the market Chor-Su, the Madrasah Koukel Dache, followed by Moustakillik and Alisher Navoitheater, the Museum of Applied Art. Discovery of the Tashkent subway. Take evening flight to Nukus. (1255 km, 2 h. 45 min.) Arrive in Nukus
Overnight in Nukus
Day 2 Nukus - Kongrad – Ustyurt Platue-Sudochie Lake – Aral Sea
Breakfast. visit the Savitsky Karakalpakstan Art Museum. The museum hosts the world's second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art and exposition of Karakalpak applied arts items.Start a full day trip to Aral Sea through Usturt Plateau. The distance to Aral Sea is 450km and it takes about 8 to 9 hours to get there. Drive through the former trading centers on the Silk Road Kungrad district. You will reach the Aral Sea in the late afternoon. Set up the tent. Camp-style dinner. Overnight in tent.
Day 3 Aral Sea – Muynak – Mizdakhan – Gyaur Kala-Nukus
Drive back to Nukus. Along the way, you will have stops to take pictures of beautiful canyons and the collapsed land. Drive on the dried bottom of the sea. There you will see abandoned ships “Cemetery of ships” in the sand that used to be the port in Muynak. Continue to Local History Museum (could be closed without prior notice). Picnic lunch. On the way to Nukus, stop at Mizdakhan memorial complex and Gyaur-Kala Fortress. Arrive in Nukus. Overnight inNukus
Day 4 Nukus - Khiva
430 km, 5 to 6 hour to drive
Breakfast at the hotel.
Visit the art museum "Savitsky." Then drive to fortresses on the road stop to take pictures and approach Tchilpyk Kala - the Tower of Silence. This round building has a diameter of 70 meters and a height of 15 meters.
Drive to Toprak Kala, lunch and explore the fortresses Toprak Kala - the most impressive fortress of the region that covers one hectare and a half and in the middle of desert fields. The construction stretches of the 1st century BC. BC to the 4th century AD It was the capital of ancient Khorezm. Two kilometers are visible the ruins of the fortress Kizil Kala - which was a garrison of the capital. Drive to Khiva. Dinner and overnight in Khiva.
Day 5 Khiva
Discover Ichan Kala which is the inner city and it entrenched behind high walls of bricks. Khiva is probably the most intact towns that located along the Silk Road in Central Asia. Spend your whole day to visiting the city museum. Ichan-Kala, Darvosa Ota, madrassah of Muhammad-Amin Khan and Kalta Minor minaret (19th century), the Joumma Mosque, Kosh Darvoza, Tach Haoulie and instead of Allah Khan coolie.Dinner in the madrasah Allakoulikhan
Overnight in Khiva.
Day 6 Khiva - Bukhara
450 km, 6 to 7-hour to drive
In the course of your hundred kilometer drive, you will pass through the villages of the Khorezm region and through Kizil Kum desert (known as Red Sand). You will have stops for taking photos and have lunch in one of the "Chaykhanas" translates as Oasis cafes The particular beauty of the desert in Asian center takes us back to the times of caravanners that crossed the sea of sand by camels.
Arrive in Bukhara in the late afternoon.
First immersion in Bukhara. Dinner in a traditional restaurant .
Overnight in Bukhara.
Day 7 Bukhara
Spend the the whole day to discover the old part of Bukhara. Be ready for on foot exploration to the old city of Chakhristan. You will firstly visit Ismail Samani mausoleum built in 9th-10th century, the oldest building in the city and one of the most beautiful jewels of Uzbekistan, mausoleum of ChashmaAyub 12th-14th century, Bola Hauz 18th century and the Citadel Ark. Dinner in the Nadir Divan Begi madrasa and folk dance performance.
Overnight in Bukhara.
Day 8 Bukhara-Gijduvan -Aydar Lakeyurt camp
225 km, 4 to 4.5 hour to drive
After Breakfast, take a 70km drive to the village of Abu-Abdulloh Guijdovani – Guijdovan which is popular with its fine ceramics
En route visit in the small town Nurata where you can climb and see the hill of Alexander the Great, and visit Namozgokh mosque along with the sacred spring “Chashma”
Arrival at the yurt camp around 17h 00. Free time to watch the sunset in the desert.
Kazakh yurts, round tents mounted on a wooden frame have a rather dull exterior but conceal a profusion of color to discover once through the door hangings, blankets and embroideries compete in beauty. Camel ride to watch the sunset in the steppe. An unforgettable and peaceful time when we meet here and there, a few goats.Dinner in the yurt camp with traditional singing a Kazakh Akhoun. Night in a yurt
Day 9 Aydar Lake–Samarkand
4 hour to drive
2-4 hours walk according to your wishes
Breakfast in the yurt.Arrival at Lake Aydar continuation along the banks of the lake to observe the birds that colonize the banks (pelicans, cormorants, condors, etc. The turquoise lake Aydarkul "sand sea", was born on the outskirts of the South Kyzylkum desert. It is possible to swim in the lake.
Departure for Samarkand.Lunch on the road. Arrive in Samarkand.
Overnight inSamarkand
Day 10 Samarkand
The day is dedicated to the discovery of the capital of the empire of Timur or Tamerlane. So called one of the biggest cities that drawn Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Tamerlane to make it his capital is still able to attract today’s travellers from all around the world by its domes and blue mosaic.
Visit the observatory UlugBek, ShakhiZinda necropolis, a silk carpet workshop (suzani).
And continue to Syab Market and Bibi-Khanum mosque.
Overnight in Samarkand
Day 11 Samarkand – Fergana Valley
In the morning take train to the Ferghana Valley via Kamtchik Pass (2110 m). Arrive in Fergana.Meet your driver and the guide outside of train station. Visit of a sculpture studio house on wood Dangara, Palace Khoudayar Khan and Juma mosque.Lunch in Kokand, drive to the famous city Richton throughout the Ferghana Valley for the quality of its traditional pottery.
Visit the woolen carpet workshop. Check in to hotel.Overnight inFerghana
Day 12Ferghana - Rishtan - Tashkent
Breakfast. Drive to Margilan. Margilan the silk town of the valley. Cigar factory silk "Yodgorlik" in Margilan. Visit Said Akhmad Khodja madrassah and the central market. Lunch in Margilan. Drive back to Tashkent.
Day 13 Tashkent-Home
Depending on the timing of your departure time, free time in the capital city.
Transfer to Tashkent international Airport. End of service.
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