Route: Tashkent-Urgench-Khiva-Bukhara-Samarkand-Tashkent
Duration: 7 days - 6 nights
This tour of visiting fabulously beautiful and unique cities of Uzbekistan combines the visit to the holy sites with architectural, cultural and ethnographic tour components.
As part of this tour, you will be able to visit the Sufi monasteries of the Middle Ages in the vicinity of Bukhara and Khorezm, such as the Mausoleum of the great Sufi and saint Sheikh Bahauddin Naqshbandi, the Mausoleum of Pahlavan Mahmud, and the oldest monument of Islamic architecture in Central Asia – the Mausoleum of Samanids, and also visit three shrines of Samarkand: the mausoleums of Al-Bukhari and Shahi Zinda and Rukhabad.
After visiting the holy places in Uzbekistan, you will become closer and more understandable to the Sufi saying: "Seek wisdom until you have the power, otherwise you can lose strength without gaining wisdom."
Learn and apply in practice the methods of maintaining health and peace of mind - all this and more awaits you during your stay in Uzbekistan.
Meeting at the airport, transfer to a hotel and check in.
Free time. Dinner. Overnight stay in Tashkent
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport. Fly to Urgench, meeting at the airport, transfer to a hotel in Khiva and check in a hotel.
On the way to Khiva, visit the Mausoleum of "Yusuf Hamadani" in Shovot. Sightseeing tour in Khiva, visit the mausoleum of Pahlavon Mahmoud, Kunya Ark, Muhammad Rahim Khan Madrasah , Juma Mosque and Minaret.
Lunch. Continuation of the tour. Visit Minaret and Madrasah of Islam Khodja.
Dinner. Overnight stay in Khiva.
Breakfast at the hotel. Drive to Bukhara through Kyzylkum Desert (450 km). Arrival in Bukhara, check in hotel, free time.
Dinner in a local restaurant. Overnight stay in Bukhara.
Breakfast at the hotel. Visit the Mausoleum of Bahauddin Naqshbandi, Chor Bakr (16th c.) Complex, holy sites of Bukhara: Hazrat Mir Kulal and " Mausoleum of Samanid (9th -10th cc.), Chor Minor Mosque, Bolo Hauz Complex(18th c.)
Lunch. Visit the architectural complex of Kukeldash Madrasah (16th c.) and water basin Lyabi House (17thc.). Nadir Divan Begi Madrasah (17thc),Ulugbek Madrasah (15thc), the summer palace of Sitora-i-Mohi Khosa (1911).
Dinner. Overnight stay in Bukhara.
Breakfast at the hotel. Drive to Samarkand (270 km - 4 hours). On the way, visit the complex of Imam Al Bukhari.
Check in a hotel. The excursion starts with a visit to the Registan Square with its three marvelous madrasahs, and Tilyakari Madrasah as well.
Lunch. After lunch, you will visit mausoleum of Amir Temur (Temurlane), Gur Emir, which also includes the grave of Mir Sayyid Baraka.
Dinner. Overnight stay in Samarkand.
Breakfast at the hotel. In the morning, you will visit the Bibi Khanum Mosque (15thc.), Sher-Dor and Thiel, Kari (17 c.). Lunch. Visit a place of worship “Maturidi”, Shahi Zinda necropolis (14 - 15 cc.), the burial site of Saint Daniel.
At 17:00 Departure to Tashkent by express train Afrosiab.
Check in a hotel in Tashkent. Dinner. Overnight in Tashkent.
Breakfast at a hotel. Sightseeing tour in Tashkent and visiting holy places, and Hast Imam Mosque.
Lunch. After lunch, visit the Mausoleum of Zangi Ata. Free Time (We recommend to visit the Bazaar Chorsu)
Early dinner. Transfer to the airport. Fly to home destination.