Tashkent - Nukus - Aral Sea - Kyzyl Kum Desert - Khiva - Bukhara - Aydarkul - Hayat - Samarkand - Shakhrisabz - Gelan - Termez - Tashkent - Fergana - Kokand - Chust - Margilan - Tashkent

Day 1. Tashkent

Meeting at the airport.
Pay attention to the driver with a sign with your name. You will be met and transferred to the hotel. Check-in upon arrival.

Day 2. Nukus-Muynak-Aral Sea
Airport transfer. Departure to Nukus by morning flight.
Meeting in Nukus.

Departure to Muynak. In Muynak you will visit the monument to the victims of the Second World War (now symbolically dedicated to the Aral Sea). The monument is located on the highest point of Muynak, from where a unique panoramic view of the city and the bottom of the Aral Sea opens.
In Muynak you will visit the "Cemetery of Ships", a museum at the House of Culture of Muynak, where the works of artists F. Madgazin and R. Matevosyan are exhibited, depicting the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya River in their canvases. Here you can compare the Aral Sea before and after. Continuation of the way along the bottom of the Aral Sea. Ascent to the Ustyurt Plateau, stop at the grandiose canyon on the Ustyurt Plateau. We pass by ancient graves. Arrival at the yurt camp on the shore of the Aral Sea. Walk. Dinner by the fire. Overnight at the yurt camp.

Day 3. Aral Sea - Lake Sudochie - Kungrad - Khodjeyli - Mizdakhan necropolis - Gyaur kala - Nukus.
Early rise with sunrise. Breakfast at the Yurt camp. After breakfast, collection and departure. On the way visit the fortress Kurgancha kala 13th c. Stop in the village of Kubla Ustyurt.
You can taste shubat (camel sour milk). Arrival at Lake Sudochye, visiting the abandoned village of Urga, the old Rybzavod, an old lighthouse on a hill, a fisherman's house.
Moving to the 14th century Mizdakhan necropolis, located in the Khojeli region. Tour of the necropolis, during which you will see: the mausoleum of Nazlumkhan (XII-XIVcc), hillock Djumart kassab, Shamun Nabi (XIX c), the mausoleum of Caliph Yerezhep and Gyaur kala (VI B.C.-IX A.D.).
In the evening arrival in Nukus. Hotel accommodation.

Day 4. Kyzylkum desert - Ayaz Kala - Khiva.
Visiting ancient fortresses
In the Kyzylkum desert, on the motley cliffs of one of the eastern spurs of Sultauizdag, the ruins of the largest fortresses of Ancient Khorezm rise - Ayaz-Kala, Kyzyl-Kala and Toprak-Kala.
Lunch in yurts on the shore of Akcha Kul lake.
In the evening arrival in Khiva. Hotel accommodation.

Day 5. Khiva
After breakfast walking tour with a guide in Khiva.
The city of Khiva is a museum, which is surrounded by a fortress wall, and all historical monuments are compactly located inside the city. Due to the fact that Khiva is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, traffic in the city is prohibited.

During the tour you will immerse yourself in the history of this ancient city. Once the main slave market of Central Asia, Khiva retains the atmosphere of the Middle Ages. You will visit the minarets of the famous madrasahs, gates and powerful walls of the Ichan-Kala fortress. To see the elegantly decorated wooden columns of the mosques of the 10th century and the amazing oriental Khiva baths, you just need to get into the part of the old city to contemplate all the splendor of the ancient oriental architecture.
Night Khiva.

Day 6. Khiva-Bukhara.
Our road will run through one of the largest deserts in the world - Kyzyl Kum, through the city of Gazli, along the bed of the Amudarya River.
On the way we will stop at the observation deck where the Amudarya River is the border between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
A stop for lunch will be at a tea house where you will taste fresh Amu Darya fish.
In the evening arrival in Bukhara. Hotel accommodation.

Day 7. Bukhara.
After breakfast walking tour of Bukhara.
Buildings included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, with a thousand-year history.
The tour includes the Ark Citadel, which is the residence of the Bukhara khans, the Kalyan minaret, known as the Tower of Death (in the Middle Ages, criminals were thrown to their deaths from the top) and the Samanid mausoleum of the 9th century.
The dynastic mausoleum of the Samanids in the historical center of Bukhara (Uzbekistan), built at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries
Madrassah of Abdullah Khan (uzb. Abdullaxon madrasasi) - a medieval building of a higher educational institution
The Chashma-Ayub mausoleum is a religious building in the center of Bukhara, it includes a mausoleum and a sacred spring.
Madrassah Nodir-Divan-Begi is a madrasah in Bukhara, part of the architectural ensemble of the 16th-17th centuries Lyabi-Khauz.
You will relax with a cup of fragrant green tea in Lyabi-Hauz, a quiet square overlooking the pool, which was created in 1620. It sits in the shade of mulberry trees as old as the pool.
This evening you will attend an open-air folklore show with dinner, which includes national dances, performance of music on national instruments and a fashion show of national clothes.

Day 9. Bukhara - Aydarkul.
After breakfast, departure to Aydarkul Lake.
On the way, we will make a stop in the city of Gijduvan, where you will visit the masterful dynasty of the world-famous masters of ceramics Narzullava.
You will get acquainted with the entire process of production of ceramic products, including the preparation of clay mass and dyes, molding and painting of finished products and their subsequent firing.

On your way there will be a stop near the town of Malik Rabat near the Caravanserai (XI-XII) and the Sardoba well, which were located on the Great Silk Road.

Further, our path runs along the spurs of the Nurata Range, where you can see the rock paintings of an ancient man dating back to 100,000 BC.

Having overcome the Nurata gorges, we will descend to the city of Nurata, where we will ascend to the ruins of the sentinel fortress of Alexander the Great.
Let's drink life-giving moisture from a holy spring on the territory of the Chashma mosque.

After the tour, we stop for lunch at the guest house.
After lunch we leave for the yurt camp.
Upon arrival at the camp accommodation in yurts. Acquaintance with the surroundings, camel trekking. After dinner, tourists gather around the fire and spend the evening listening to the music and songs of the akyn (folk singer of Central Asia)

Day 10. Aydarkul - Hayat.
After breakfast, departure to the beach of Aydarkul Lake, where you can swim in the purest water and take sunbaths.

Then we head to the mountain village of Khayat. On the way we will be able to stop at private gold mines where the locals extract gold.

The next stop will be in the village of Mejrun, where on the banks of the mountainous Sai there is a giant Eastern Biota, whose age is estimated to be more than 2000 years and which, according to legend, was planted by Alexander the Great. And next to it is an ancient mosque.
Upon arrival at Hyatt, accommodation in a guest house.

Day 11. Hayat - Samarkand.
In Hayat we will enjoy the splendor of the orchard, where there is a lot of greenery and shade. Time in the mountain village flows slowly, and it seems that the locals live the way their ancestors lived two hundred years ago.

After lunch departure to Samarkand. On the way we pass the city of Jizzakh. Further, the path runs along the bed of the Sanzar River. We make a stop at the narrowest point of the gorge, which is called the Tamerlane Gate.

In the evening we arrive in the city of Samarkand. Hotel accommodation.

Day 12. Samarkand.
After breakfast, excursion around Samarkand by car.
Most of the main attractions of Samarkand are the creations of Timur, his grandson Ulugbek and the Uzbek Sheibanids.
The Gur-Emir Mausoleum is the burial place of Timur, his 2 sons and 2 grandchildren.
Stop at the majestic Registan, the trading center of medieval Samarkand and a huge bazaar.
Walk along the street of Shah-i-Zinda tombs. The name means the tomb of the Living King.
The Bibi-Khanum Mosque, built shortly before Timur's death and named after his Chinese wife.
Visit the Ulugbek observatory, you will see the remains of a huge astrolabe.

Day 13. Samarkand - Shakhrisabz.
The shortest way from Samarkand to Shakhrisabz runs through the picturesque Aman-Kutan pass. This is a narrow winding road rising to a height of 1650 meters above sea level.
In the mountains you will have a picnic (Besh Chinor), where you can taste the meat of a young lamb cooked in a tandoor on juniper twigs.
One of the main attractions of Shakhrisabz is the palace of Amir Timur Aksaray
The complex is called Dorus-Saodat (Dorussiadat), which in translation into Russian means "receptacle of power."
The burial ensemble Dorut-Tillyavat (translated as “Place of Reflections”) dates back to the end of the 14th - beginning of the 15th centuries.
Mosque "Kok - Gumbaz" Translated into Russian, "Kok - Gumbaz" means "Blue Dome". The mosque was built in 1435 on the skeletons of an earlier building.

Day 14. Shakhrisabz - Gelan.
After breakfast, departure to Gelan.
Gelan is located at an altitude of 1500-2000 meters above sea level. You will be enchanted by the beauty of the typical clay houses built with stairs. All the way we will be met by beautiful landscapes, rivers, rocks, villages, shepherds.
Overnight in a guest house.

Day 15. Termez.
After breakfast departure to Termez.
The route will run along the picturesque gorge of the Gissar Range of the Pamir Mountains.
Upon arrival in Termez, we will visit the archaeological museum.
In the evening accommodation at the hotel.

Day 16. Termez.
After breakfast during the tour you will visit the At-Termezi memorial complex, the Kokildor-Ota khanaka, the Kyrk-Kyz fortress - the summer residence of the Samanid dynasty rulers, the Sultan Saodat ensemble and Zurmala (Buddha's stupa). Next, you will see the Buddhist archaeological sites of Karatepa and Fayaztepa, the mausoleum of Al-Khakimat
In the evening flight to Tashkent.

Day 17. Tashkent.
Excursion around Tashkent with a guide and a car.
Visiting the Khast-Imam complex, formed around the grave of the prominent Muslim scholar Khazrati Imam.
Here in the library, you will have the opportunity to see the Osman Koran (the oldest surviving Koran in the world).
Continue to the Barakhana Madrasah near the Hastimom mahalla,
After the complex you will visit the Chorsu market, the largest in Central Asia.
After visiting the market, you will head to the Iconic Plov Center, where you can see and taste the process of making pilaf.
After lunch, you will visit the Museum of Stalinist Repressions
Then we head to Mustakillik Square, exit to Broadway. We follow to the square of Amir Temur, where his monument is located.

Day 18. Tashkent - Fergana.
After breakfast, you will have a 5-hour transfer to the Ferghana Valley, the center of silk production in Central Asia, after driving to the city of Angren, our path lies in the spurs of the Western Tien Shan along the Angren River, where we climb the Kamchik pass 2200 meters high along the mountain serpentine and descend to the Ferghana Valley.
 On the banks of the Syrdarya River, we stop at a local teahouse, where we can taste freshly caught river fish.
Trip to Rishtan ceramic center. Master classes by Sharofiddin Yusupov, Alisher Nazirov, Rustam Usmanov will help you touch the age-old secrets of the Kulls. You will be told how to create a brilliant glaze "ishkor" from hand-picked herbs "kirk-tugun", they will teach you how to sculpt on a potter's wheel with a foot drive, or maybe the master will allow you to paint with natural paints. own lyagan.
Then we arrive in Fergana. Overnight in Fergana.

Day 19. Kokand.
We leave for the city of Kokand (20 km from Fergana).
You will visit the Palace of Khudoyar Khan Urda - built in the 19th century, this is a functioning museum. Examine the ceiling of the throne room.
On the Yangi Chorsu square, near the Norbuta-biy madrasah, there are many teahouses where you can have a delicious meal.
Walking along Istiklol Street, you will find little Europe: the house of the industrialist Vadyaev and the cotton exchange, which today houses the mayor's office; Russian-Asian Bank - today Agrobank; home of the cotton magnate Poteliahov, now the city telegraph. Kokand was the capital of trade and cotton production in Asia and Transcaucasia, large European and Russian trading houses had their offices here. Many of their buildings have survived to this day. But next to the former Shark Hotel there is a kiosk from the 60s of the last century, where you will be prepared real soda in a faceted glass.

Day 20. Chust.
Transfer to Chust (70 km).
You will visit the knife-making quarter. In the workshop of usto Rakhimjon Ubaidullaev, you will be told not only about the secrets of making, but mainly about what knives are and how to handle them. And for collectors - a direct road to the only remaining master of Kokand (according to legend, it was here that the blacksmith center of Asia was located) - Khasanjon Umarov.
You will also visit a duppy workshop, a doll making workshop, a weaving workshop and a wood carving workshop.
Back to Kokand.

Day 21. Margilan
Moving to Margilan (90km)
  Ahmad-Khoja Madrasah - a museum complex with workshops (crafts center)
Silk-weaving factory "Yodgorlik".
Kuntepa Market. This is a real Uzbek bazaar, wild, chaotic, exciting, claustrophobic, and there is something to buy instead of tomatoes.
Trip to Rishtan ceramic center. Master classes by Sharofiddin Yusupov, Alisher Nazirov, Rustam Usmanov will help you touch the age-old secrets of the Kulls. You will be told how to create a brilliant glaze "ishkor" from hand-picked herbs "kirk-tugun", they will teach you how to sculpt on a potter's wheel with a foot drive, or maybe the master will allow you to paint with natural paints. own lyagan.
master class Ok Yer village - visit to the workshop for the production of woolen carpets Gafurov Bakhromjon Back to Kokand

Day 22. Tashkent
Departure to Fergana. Morning flight Fergana - Tashkent
Excursion around Tashkent with a guide and a car.
Visiting the Khast-Imam complex, formed around the grave of the prominent Muslim scholar Khazrati Imam.
Here in the library, you will have the opportunity to see the Osman Koran (the oldest surviving Koran in the world).
Continue to the Barakhana Madrasah near the Hastimom mahalla,
After the complex you will visit the Chorsu market, the largest in Central Asia.
After visiting the market, you will head to the Iconic Plov Center, where you can see and taste the process of making pilaf.
After lunch, you will visit the Museum of Stalinist Repressions
Then we head to Mustakillik Square, exit to Broadway. We follow to the square of Amir Temur, where his monument is located.

Day 23. Chimgan
After breakfast, departure to the Chimgan tract, spurs of the Western Tien Shan
Moving along the mountain serpentine, we climb the sandy pass, 1830m high, descend to the Chimgan tract, where you can enjoy the clean mountain air. Trekking on horseback, ride a cable car.
Then we descend to the Charvak reservoir, which is formed by the confluence of three mountain rivers - Chatkal, Koksu and Pskem. We pass the Charvak dam 300m high. Then we go down to the village of Khodjikent, where the oldest 700-year-old plane tree (plane tree) is located. Encampment of an ancient man, rock paintings.
We have lunch at the national teahouse.
In the evening we return to Tashkent