Cultural
16 persons
Destinations: Tashkent – Samarkand - Bukhara
Duration: 6 days, 5 nights.
Let's go on an express journey around Uzbekistan. During the tour through Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand we visit 3 cities in 6 days, enjoy the national cuisine and taste local delicacies at the markets. Fabulous mosques with shimmering mosaics, azure domes and fancy patterns, an ancient observatory with preserved instruments for astronomical measurements and mausoleums forming a whole street are waiting for you. You will see how the past and the future mix in Tashkent, get acquainted with the way of life of its inhabitants and fill the memory of your smartphone with vivid shots.
Airport pick-up
Transfer to the hotel, check-in
Breakfast
11:00 Sightseeing program around the center of Tashkent
• HAST-E-IMAM COMPLEX, WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE 7TH CENTURY QURAN OF OSMAN.
• CHORSU MARKET - WHERE YOU CAN BUY ORIENTAL SWEETS AND NATIONAL SOUVENIRS.
Break for lunch
• TOUR OF THE NEW CITY
• MONUMENT OF COURAGE - A MONUMENT TO THE 1966 EARTHQUAKE
• ART MUSEUM
• FORMER RESIDENCE OF PRINCE ROMANOV
• AMIR TEMUR SQUARE BROADWAY
• TASHKENT CHIMES
Transfer to hotel
Overnight
Breakfast
• 07:00 Transfer to Tashkent train station
• 08:00 AM Depart from Tashkent by fast train Afrosiyob
• 10:08 AM Arrival to Samarkand
Meeting with our driver and a guide outside the gates of train station building
Transfer to excursion.
10:30 A full day guided sightseeing tour around Samarkand.
• Gur-Emir Mausoleum (“the grave of Emir”)
• Registan square, which was the center of Samarkand during centuries. Registan Square is a complex of three monuments: Ulugbek Madrassah (15 th century), Sher-Dor Madrassah (17 century) and Tilla-Kari
Break for lunch
• Madrassah (17 century)
• Bibi Khanym mosque (the 15th century) it was the biggest mosque in CA
• Siab bazaar
Transfer to hotel
Overnight
Breakfast
10:00 Hotel check out
• The day starts from visiting one of the most mysterious Shakhi-Zinda Necropolis, where you find a complex consisting of more than twenty buildings, unique in Central Asia
• Visit Ulugbek Observatory - incredible construction of 15 century for studying astronomy
• Afrosiab Museum is located on the site of ancient settlement called Afrosiab. In 1220 the city was almost completely destroyed by the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan.
Break for lunch
• Saint Daniel Mausoleum
• Visit Koni Gil paper mill (10 kms from Samarkand, 2 hrs). A good chance to watch the old technology of silk paper production.
Traditional cooking master class (DINNER included)
20:00 Transfer to Samarkand train station
21:03 Departure from Samarkand to Bukhara by train
22:34 Arrival time to Bukhara
Transfer to hotel
Overnight in Bukhara hotel
Breakfast
10:00 Sightseeing program
• Visit the Mausoleum of Ismail Samani - the burial place of Samanid dynasty dated 9 century, one of the most esteemed sights of central Asian architectures
• Chashma Ayub (Prophet Job’s well). • Arc Fortress - the center of political events and residence of Bukharian rulers until 1920. Nowadays there is a museum inside.
Break for lunch (by your own)
• Poi Kalon Ensemble which includes Kalon mosque, best-known minaret and Madrassah Miri-Arab,
• “Ulugbek” and “Abdulaziz-Khan” Madrasah
• Bazar and trading domes
• Magok-i-Attari Mosque
• Kukeldash Madrasah
• Lyabi Hauz Complex.
Time for leisure
Additional activities in Bukhara: (extra service)
- Bozori Kord Telpak furushon-Eastern men's bath.
- Hamam Kunzhak - Eastern women's bath near the Kalyan Minaret.
Folklore show in Madrasah Nodir Divan Begi (by availability)
Puppet theater and a workshop for making dolls.
Workshop for the production of scrawl
Bukhara carpet shop
Workshop on embroidery Suzane
Ceramic workshop in Gijduvan (located out of Bukhara, 70 km. By prior arrangement)
Transfer to hotel
Overnight in a hotel
Breakfast
09:00 Guided sightseeing program in the suburbs of Bukhara city
• Madrassa Chor-Minor
• Sitorai Mohi Khosa - Summer palace of Emir of Bukhara
• Pilgrimage sight - Bahovadin Nakshbandi theologist of sufizm 14 century.
Break for lunch
15:00 Transfer to Bukhara train station
15:52 Departure from Bukhara to Tashkent
19:48 Arrival in Tashkent
Transfer to hotel, accommodation, rest
Overnight in a hotel
Breakfast
Hotel check out
Transfer to Tashkent International Airport
Departure from Tashkent
The End of the Tour.