560.00$
Discovery Tour to Uzbekistan: Discover amazing places, local traditions and culture of Uzbek people.
Tour duration: 12 days/11 nights
Tour date: Flexible
Tour type: Private
Tour itinerary: Tashkent — Nukus — Mizdakhan — Muynak — Nukus — Ancient Fortresses — Khiva — Bukhara — Gijduvan — Nurata — Yurt Camp — Aydar Lake — Samarkand — Shakhrisabz — Samarkand — Tashkent — Chimgan — Tashkent
Tour language: English, Russian
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3 Hours Before Flight Time
Day 1: … — Tashkent (Sightseeing tour duration: 6-7 hours)
Arrive in Tashkent. driver will meet you at the Tashkent International Airport. (If you are arriving by an early morning flight, extra night at the hotel may be needed).
Start sightseeing from the Old City part of Tashkent. Visit Khast Imam — a cultic architectural complex and the religious center of Tashkent where the world famous Uthman Quran has been preserved. Khast Imam complex consists of Barak-Khan Madrasah, Tillya Sheikh Mosque, Muyi Muborak Madrasah, Kaffal Shashi Mausoleum, New Khazrati Imam Mosque and the Muftiate building. Drive to Chorsu Bazaar — one of the oldest bazaars in Uzbekistan. After exploring the bazaar will arrange a lunch at the Central Asian Plov Center. Plov is cooked in a giant, wood-fired kazans. Enjoy your plov!
Have a short Tashkent metro ride. Visit Independence Square, Alisher Navoi State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, Amir Temur Square and Monument of Courage. Drop off at the hotel. Free time. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 2: Tashkent — Nukus — Muynak — Nukus
05:00 Transfer to the Domestic Airport.
07:15 Flight to Nukus.
08:55 Arrive in Nukus. Transfer to Muynak (200 km) with a driver. En Route to Muynak visit Ancient Complex Mizdakhan. The ancient complex keeps a lot of secrets and even mystical legends and beliefs. There is a small madrasah called sometimes “World Clock”, which served as the burial place of one of the saints. According to the legend every year, this building loses one brick from the masonry, and when the building collapses, the world will come to the end. Visit Muynak Museum and the «Cemetery of ships» — former Sea port of Muynak. Today tourists arrive in Muynak in great numbers to see the cemetery of ships – corroded iron bulks amid the Aralkum desert, a new desert that has formed on the bottom of the former Aral Sea. Visit Local History Museum and the former port of Muynak. You can enjoy watching the endless desert that was once a sea. Drive back to Nukus. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 3: Nukus — Chilpiq Kala — Kyzyl Kala — Toprak Kala — Ayaz Kala — Khiva
Breakfast at the hotel.
09:00 Recommended to visit Savitsky Art Museum in Nukus.
13:00 Drive to Khiva (260 km). En Route to Khiva, visit ancient fortresses of Khorezm — Chilpiq Kala, Kyzyl Kala, Toprak Kala and Ayaz Kala. Arrive in Khiva. Check in. Free time. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 4: Khiva (Sightseeing tour duration: 5-6 hours)
Breakfast at the hotel.
09:00 Start your walking sightseeing tour in ancient Khiva. Explore the walled inner town of the city of Khiva — Itchan Kala. Visit Mukhammad Aminkhan Madrasah, Mukhammad Rahimkhan Madrasah, Kalta-Minor, Kunya-Ark, Juma Mosque, Tash-Khovli Palace, Minaret of Islam-Khoja, Pakhlavan Makhmud Mausoleum. Free time. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 5: Khiva — Urgench — Bukhara
Breakfast at the hotel.
12:00 Check out. Free time.
15:40 Transfer to Urgench train station (30 km).
17:20 Transfer to Bukhara by night train.
23:15 Arrive in Bukhara and transfer to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel.
