PEARLS AMONG THE SANDS

Description:

Tour from Moscow to Uzbekistan, designed for 8 days. It will give you the opportunity to see the four most interesting and exotic cities of Uzbekistan: Bukhara, Khiva, Samarkand and Shakhrisabz. Each of these cities is famous and rich in its history, monuments of architecture and architecture. Eight days is the best time to get the most interesting information from excursions, as well as to devote your free time to independent walks, unique photos and communication with people. For some, such a trip can be a return to the good old days, when everyone lived in the same big country and was always happy with each other. For many, it will be the opening of a whole new world – a charming Orient!

We have prepared the best program for you. We thought it would be convenient for you to fly directly to ancient Samarkand, so you will save at least 8-24 hours than if you flew to modern Tashkent and from there would get to Samarkand. Excursions for you will be conducted by our experienced guides. This is important because after their stories you will have some impressions. You will also have enough free time so that you can walk around the old city on your own, shop and chat with people. We have prepared for this tour gastronomic recommendations, what and where to try from the local cuisine. Thus, your tour will also turn into a gastronomic discovery. Throughout the route, we will be in touch with you, listen, take into account and organize the tour as flexibly as possible for you.

Tour programme

1 day. Samarkand.

Flight to Samarkand from Moscow. Meeting at the airport. Hotel accommodation. Night at the hotel.

2 days. Samarkand.

Samarkand. City tour. Visit Registan Square (XV-XVII centuries), Bibi-Khanum Mosque (XIV century), Gur-Emir Mausoleum (XV century), Siab Bazaar, Ulugbek Observatory (XV century), Afrosiab Museum, Shahi-Zinda complex (IX-XIX centuries). Night at the hotel.

3 days. Samarkand - Shakhrisabz - Bukhara.

Transfer to Bukhara by car through Shakhrisabz. Excursion to Shakhrisabz. Further trip to Bukhara. Coming to Bukhara. Hotel accommodation. Night at the hotel.

4 days. Bukhara.

Bukhara. Start of the city tour. Lyabi-Hauz ensemble, Poi-Kalon complex (XII-XVI centuries), Ark fortress (I century BC - XIX century), Mausoleum of Ismail Samani (IX-X centuries). Lunch. Continuation of the city tour. Madrasah Mir-Arab (XVII century), mosque Magoki-Attori, Kosh madrasah Ulugbek and Abdulazizkhan (XV-XVII centuries), Mosque Bolo-Hauz (XVIII century). Night at the hotel.

5 days. Bukhara.

Breakfast at the hotel. Continuation of the tour of Bukhara and suburban objects: the complex of the Residence of the Emir of Bukhara Sitor-i-Mohi-Khosa (XIX century), the complex of Bakhuddin Naqshbandi (XVI century). Free time. Night in Bukhara.

6 days. Bukhara - Khiva.

Bukhara - Khiva. Moving to Khiva by car through the Kyzylkum desert. Stops on the way. Hotel accommodation. Night at the hotel.

7 days. Khiva.

Khiva. Khiva tour. Visit to the architectural complex of Ichan-Kala (XII-XIX centuries), the residence of the last Khan, including the mausoleum of Ismail Khoja, the madrasah of Muhammad Amin Khan, the fortress of Kunya-Ark (XVI-XVII centuries), the mazars of Uch-Avlia, which means in the local dialect "Three saints". Lunch. Continuation of the excursion program: the minaret of Kalta Minor, the turquoise walls of which are covered with verses of the great Maarif and Khan's Mirab Muhammad Riza Agha tower "Kalta Minor", the palace of Tash-Khovli (XIX century), the mausoleum of Pahlavan Mahmud (XIV-XVIII centuries), the Juma mosque (X century). Night in Khiva.

8 days. Khiva - Urgench - Moscow.

Breakfast. Transfer to Urgench. Flight from Urgench to Moscow.