Choosing a combined tour, you will find yourself in a world of oriental tales, where the magnificent dunes of Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, and many others are hidden behind sand dunes, like mirages of oases. You will have the opportunity to see amazing natural attractions. You will visit the ruins of ancient fortresses that became dumb witnesses of the conquests of Alexander the Great, and you will also find yourself in sacred places that attract thousands of pilgrims every year, and this list of amazing places of the two countries can be continued endlessly.
Day 1 Tashkent
Arrive to Tashkent’s airport at TBA from TBA, meet and greet service (COMPANY SIGN for meeting), transfer to hotel. After passport and customs controls you will be met by your guide/driver.
Depart airport to hotel. Check in, rest.
Short tour in Tashkent in the afternoon: Museum of Applied Arts, Amir Temur square, city fountains and modern monuments.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Day 2 Tashkent – Bukhara
Breakfast at Bukhara hotel.
Transfer to the airport for morning flight to Bukhara (according to time table), flight (1hour – 40 minutes) and arrival to Bukhara. Accommodation at Bukhara Hotel, check-in.
City tour in Bukhara: Ismael Samani Mausoleum (the tomb of representatives of Samanids’ dinasty at the end of IX – beginning of X), Chashma Ayub Mausoleum (Spring of Job – XIV), Bolo-Hauz Mosque (beginning of XX), Citadel Ark (IV) –city in a city, Poi Kalon Ensemble (Pedestal of the Great), religious heart of Sacred Bukhara, consists of Minaret Kalon (XII), Kalyan Mosque (XII), Miri Arab Madrassah (XVI), Ulugbek’s Madrassah (1417), Madrassah Nodir Divanbeghi, Abdul Aziz Khan Madrassah, Magoki-Attori Mosque (dated XII-XVI centuries), Lyabi-Khauz Ensemble (dated XIV-XVII centuries), Kosh-Madrassah Ensemble (consisting of two resisting Madari-Abdullakhan Madrassah (Abdullakhan’s mother) and Abdullakhan Madrassah. Chor-Minor (four minarets).
Free time: we advise you to visit Bukhara dome Bazaars (dated 15-16 centuries): Toki Saraffon (the Dome of Moneychangers), Toki-Telpak Furushon (the Dome of Cap makers), Toki Zargaron (the Dome of jewellers) and Tim Abdullakhan (the Center of silk). Overnight at the hotel.
Day 3 Bukhara
Breakfast at the hotel.
There are Rulers’ palaces and mausoleums of Sheikhs are located out of city in Bukhara. A trip out of Bukhara city for a visit to Bahouddin Nakshbandi Mausoleum (dated XVI-XIX century), to the sepulchers of his mother and his preceptor (dated XIV), Mausoleum Chor-Bakr (dated X century), visit to summer residence Sitorai Mokhi Khosa (dated XIX century). There you can see where Emirs of Bukhara spent their time during long and hot summers while taking a rest. Feed some bread to peacocks and make a pilgrimage to holy sites.
Free time for purchasing of souvenirs and east spices. We advise to visit the Gold Bazar.
Overnight at the hotel.
Day 4 Bukhara – Shakhrisabz – Samarkand
Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to Samarkand through Shakhrisabz, city tour in Shakhrisabz: Sights of Shakhrisabzincludes Timur Ak-Saray Palace (White palace, 1380-1404), which is substantially destroyed, but it’s restoring intensively. Except huge 40-metre gate, it is possible to see magnificent filigree mosaics and unique technology a samples of a wall layings on which it is possible to judge what magnificence made, possibly, this enormous summer residence. The ensemble of mausoleum Dorus-Sadat (Dorus-Saodat, “Power Place”, XIV) – crypt of Jahangir and Omar (Timur’s sons). Cult places of Shkhrisabz are ensemble Dorus-Tilovat (“a blue mosque”, XIV centure) – the mausoleum of spiritual instructor Timur Shamsiddin Kulol, graceful Gumbazi-Seyidon Mausoleum (XVI centure, there are burried descendants of Ulugbek) and Cook-Gumbaz Mosque (1435), and also Hazrat-Imam Mosque (XIVcenture) here are based the tomb of Timur (he is buried in Samarkand, and here are located the mausoleums of relatives of the great conqueror). Transfer to Samarkand. Arrival. Hotel check-in.
Overnight at the hotel.
Day 5 Samarkand
Breakfast at the hotel.
The science and art of ancient East where concentrated in Samarkand since olden times. Multinational and tolerant – it is spoken here that: “there are many stairs leading to the sky” and there is no difference in what language you pray.
Full day city tour in Samarkand: Visiting of morning East Siab Bazaar, Registan Square – Madrassah Ulug Bek (XV), Madrassah Shir-Dor (XVII), Madrassah Tillya-Kori (XVII), Mausoleum Guri Emir – Tamerlane’s Tomb (XIV-XV), Bibi Khanum Mosque (XIV-XV). Excavations and Museum of ancient city of Afrosiab. Architectural Complex Shakh-i-Zinda (dated XI-XV century) and Ulug Bek Observatory (XV), the Mausoleum of prophet Daniel. Visiting carpet factory Hudzhum – handmade silk carpets. Workshop visiting on manufacturing of a papyrian paper (handmade). Free time for purchasing of souvenirs and east spices.
Overnight at the hotel.
Day 6 Samarkand – Tashkent
Breakfast at the hotel.
Visiting Imam Al Bukhariy Memorial Complex. After transferring to Tashkent (4 hours). Return to Tashkent, back to 21st century. Tashkent is one of the most beautiful cities in Central Asia, where antiquity and modernity coexist completing each other. Tashkent hotel accommodation.
Overnight at the hotel.
Day 7 Tashkent – Bishkek
Breakfast at the hotel.
Lunch and transfer to airport to HY 779 at 07:55-10:10 (flight timing and schedule subject to change)
After checking in a hotel we are going to Ala -Archa national park. Half day hiking and photo opportunity. Lunch in the Ala-Archa gorge. Drive back to Bishkek city. Half day sightseeing tour – Central Ala Too square, White House, Parliament house, Change of guard, Lenin Statue, etc. Accommodation in a hotel.
Day 8 Bishkek – Issyk-Kul
Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to Cholpon Ata town. En route visit Burana Tower historical complex and Cholpon Ata petroglyphs site. Lunch in a local family in Tokmok. Dinner and overnight in a hotel on the Shore of Issyk-Kul Lake.
Day 9 Issyk-Kul
Breakfast at the hotel.
Full day trip to Karakol town. Visit N. M. Przhevalski memorial complex, Dungan mosque, Orthodox Church. Transfer to Djety Oguz gorge. Picnic lunch. Photo and hiking opportunity. Transfer back to Cholpon Ata town. Dinner and overnight in a hotel.
Day 10 Issyk-Kul – Almaty
Breakfast at the hotel.
A long day transfer to Almaty. Border crossing from Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan. Lunch en route. Late arrival to Almaty. Accommodation in a hotel and dinner in the restaurant near by the hotel.
Day 11 Almaty – Tashkent
Breakfast in hotel.
Almaty city tour – Panfilov’s Park with Zenkov’s Orthodox Cathedral, Great Patriotic War Memorial and National Musical Instruments Museum, central mosque. Lunch in the city.
Transfer to airport for your flight back to Tashkent with HY 762 at 19:25-20:15 (flight timing and schedule subject to change)
Pick up at Tashkent airport, transfer for dinner and check in to hotel. Overnight in hotel
Day 12 Tashkent
Breakfast in hotel.
After a dinner city tour through modern Tashkent: Navoi Theater Square, The Opera and Ballet Theatre of Alisher Navoi, the Tashkent Television tower (from outside), the Memorial comple, People’s Courage Monument (the unique architecturally-art complex devoted to the liquidation of Tashkent earthquake consequences in 1966).
Tour to Amir Temur Square: monument of the great commander, Amir Temur, the well-known Tashkent chiming clock, the Palace of Forums from outside. Overnight in Tashkent.
Day 13 Tashkent – Departure to next destination
Transfer to airport to catch you flight back home