Camel Ridding Tour in Uzbekistan

Tour Programme subject to change according your request

Arrival to Tashkent. Accommodation at the Hotel. Sightseeing tour Tashkent with:

• Halklar Dustligi Square
• Abdul Kasim Sheykh Mausoleum (16 c.)
• Shamakhmedov's family sculpture
• Alisher Navoi monument
• Kukeldash Madrassah
• Jumma Mosque

The dinner. Overnight.

Breakfast. Transfer to airport. Flight to Bukhara. Accommodation at the Hotel. Lunch. Some time for shower and dress up.

We start our city tour in Bukhara:

• Ulugbek Madrassah (15 c.)
• Abdulaziz Khan Madrassah (16 c.)
• Silk market (Tim Abdulakhana(16 c.)
• jewellery market or carpets market
• Bolo Hauz Mosque (18 c.)
• Magokki-Attari Mosque (12 -16 cc.)
• Lyabi Hauz with Nadir Divanbegi Madrassah and Kukeldash Madrassah (16-17 cc.)

The dinner at the ancient madrassah. Demonstration of plov cooking on the fire-wood. Overnight.

Breakfast. Continuation of the city tour:

Lunch at the restaurant at the shore of the ancient pond.

• Poi Kalon ensemble
• mosque Kalon (16 c.)
• minaret (12 c.)
• Madrassah Mir-i-Arab (16 c.)
• The Ark- winter residence of all Bukhara rulers
• Sitora-i Mohi Hosa ("The moon and the star of khan") - the summer palace of the last Bukhara emir

Dinner. Overnight.

Transer to Nurata (185 km)- a small city, flattened by desert Kizilkum against the range Narrate, has an ancient history. Already in antique times here was a large settlement. Ruins of an ancient fortress and Khusan`s mosque with basin for sacred fishes - place of pilgrimage of the local people reached the present times.

The system of an ancient water line - kyarizov operating from early centuries till now interesting also.

On the way we will see gold mining. Japanese prisoners who lived here after the war work out the system of gold mining. The local people borrow this system and dig for many meters deep into the land.

In Nurata we will visit Mosque and Khonako of Abdullazizkhan Sheybani (16 c.), bathhouse (16 c.) and holy source.

Transfer to camel stop in the desert (200 km). Huge sand hills are overgrown with hozaraspon (garmala), camel plants, saksaul. Accommodation in yurts with bath rooms and shower.

Dinner. Overnight.

Breakfast. Camel-riding in Central Kizilkum desert. The base camp is situated in the desert among dunes 10 km apart from the settlement Yangikazgan. From this place we start our camel riding.

Lunch. Ridding on the camels to Aydarkul lake (8-10 km). Aidarkul is called as geographic miracle, which was formed in waterless desert on southeast outskirts of Kizilkum.

A lot of fish is in the Aydarkul lake like sazan, sheat- fish, bream. The birds are cormorant, heron, pelican, ducks, swan. Today area of the Aydarkul lake is 3000 sq. km, length -about 250 km. and width - from 8 up to 15 km.

Picnic at the shore of the lake. Fresh fish. Ridding on the camels to the camel stop.

Dinner at the fire accompanied with akin singing. Overnight in the yurt.

Breakfast. We leave Aydarkul lake and drive for Samarkand.

Lunch on the way. Accommodation in the hotel.

Dinner in the private house. Overnight.

Sightseeing Tour in Samarkand:

• Gur Emir mausoleum (14-15 cc.)
• Registan square (15-17 cc.)
• Bibi Khanum mosque (15 c.).
• Shakhi-Zinda complex (9-14 cc.)
• Ulugbek observatory (15 c.)

The dinner. Overnight.

Breakfast. Transfer to Tashkent (330 km). Transfer to airport. Departure flight.