Trip Description

Accomodation

Stay program

• day 1:

  Paris - Tashkent

  

  Flight to Tashkent . Dinner and overnight on board.

• day 2:

  Tashkent

  

  Arrival in Tashkent. You will be met by your English speaking guide at the airport. He will take you to the city for breakfast. In the morning you will visit with a guide the old city with the big Chorsu market, Khasti Imam complex, Barak Khan medersa dating from the 16th century and Tellia Sheikh mosque, Kafal Shashi mausoleum, the new Minor mosque. Lunch at leisure (transfer to hotel after 14:00). In the afternoon, stroll around the Independence Square and Amir Temour Park, then visit the Museum of Applied Arts. Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 3:

  Tachkent - Tcharvak - Tachkent - 180 km

  

  Breakfast at the hotel. Departure for Tcharvak. On the way to the mountainous region of the republic, you will go for a short hike in the Tian Shan mountains. Walk by the Tcharvak lake and visit the Beldirsoy lake where you will have the possibility to take the chairlift. Lunch at leisure. Walk in the mountains. Return to Tashkent and check-in at the hotel. Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 4:

  Tachkent - Ourguentch - Touprakala - Khiva -180 km

  

  Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport for flight to Ugrach at 07:25-08:55 by HY-051, arrival in Ugrach. Drive to visit the desert fortresses: Kyzylkala, Toprak Kala and Ayaz Kala. Dating respectively from the 3rd and 6th centuries, they testify to the glorious past of Khorezm. They are located on the edge of the Kyzyl-Koum desert in an impressive natural setting. Lunch at leisure. Continuation on the road to Khiva, arrival and installation in the hotel. Dinner at leisure. Night at the hotel.

• day 5:

  Khiva

  

  Breakfast. Guided tour through the entrance gate of the fortress "Ata darvaza" (Itchan Qala - inner city). The architectural monuments of the fortress were erected in the 10th - 18th centuries and are preserved in good condition until today. You will visit successively the truncated minaret Kalta Minar, Mohamed Aminkhan medersa, the seat of the king and the old palace Kounya Ark, Mohamed Rahimkhan medersa, Said Alouddin mausoleum, Pahlavan Mahmud mausoleum. Lunch at leisure. Then continuation of the visits by the minaret of Islamkhodja, the minaret of Islamkhodja, the palace of Tochhovli and the Harem of Khan, the medérsa of Ollokoulikhon. Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 6:

  Khiva - Bukhara - (by normal train)

  

  Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the railway station to take the normal train to Bukhara at 08:30-16:00. The railway passes through the Kyzyl Koum desert and the route is between sand dunes. In the past, caravans heading to the West passed through this part of the Silk Road which linked the Western cities and Bukhara. Lunch at leisure. Arrival in Bukhara and accommodation in the hotel. Visit of the city with the Lyabi Khaouz complex dating from the 16th century in a green setting of hundred-year-old trees surrounding a small pond, the Kukeldash medersa and the Nadir Divanbegi medersa. Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 7:

  Boukhara

  

  Breakfast at the hotel. Guided tour of the Mausoleum of Ismail Samani, Shachma Ayoub, the ancient Citadel "Ark" and the Bolo Khaouz Mosque. Lunch at leisure. Continuation of the guided tours by the following monuments: Magoki-Attari Mosque, Ulugh Beg Medersa (1417), Abdul Aziz Khan Medersa (1654), Poyi Kalyan Complex, Mir Arab Medersa (1535), Kalyan Minaret, Great Mosque, Money Changers Dome, Hat Sellers Dome, Abdullakhan's Tim and the Jewellery Dome Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 8:

  

  Breakfast. Guided tour of the outside of Bukhara city. You will go to Bakhuddin Naqshbandi complex which was the great souffi of Central Asia, to the summer palace of Bukhara emir - Sitorai Mohi -Khossa, to the small medersa Chor Minor (1807) with its four minarets topped with turquoise blue domes. Lunch at leisure. Afternoon visit to the Bukhara embroidery workshop and the synagogue, then free time for personal discovery. Optional: Dinner with a show of dances, traditional songs and fashion show in Nadir Devanbegui medersa. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 9:

  Boukhara - Nourata - Yanguigazgan - 270 km

  

  Breakfast. Drive to Nourata. Along the way you will visit the water tank (Sardoba) and the ruins of the 12th century Caravan Saray Rabbati Malik, the paintings engraved on the rock just beside the road. Arrival at Nourata. Lunch at leisure. Guided tour of the city of Nourata where you will find the ruins of an ancient fortress that was built at the time of the Greek conquest (Alexander the Great). You will visit the complex of Nourata including two mosques, a sacred and curative spring whose water is very rich in various natural minerals. You continue on the way to Yanguigazgan, the village of the Kazakh berserkers. Drive to Yanguigazgan. Arrival and installation in the yurt. Possibility to walk in the desert and ride on camels. Dinner with vodka and songs of a Kazakh shepherd and overnight in the yurt.

• day 10:

  Yanguigazgan - Aydarkul - Mojrum - Hayat - 150 km

  

  Breakfast is served. Then drive to the Aydarkul lake. You will have a short walk along the lake, with the possibility of swimming. On the way visit the two thousand year old fir tree in Mojroum. Walk at the foot of the mountains and in the forest. Lunch at a local's house. Road to Hayat village, a beautiful village at the foot of the Nourratine Mountains. Arrival and installation at the inhabitant's house. Walk in the village. Dinner and overnight stay.

• day 11:

  Hayat - Uxum - Hayat - (hiking and trekking, 8 km)

  

  Breakfast. Hike (5-6 hours of easy walking, 200-300 m difference in altitude), with the possibility to visit a typical village market. Picnic on the pass. Arrival at the pass from where you can see the panorama of the village (2000 m high), the highest point of the Nourata mountains and you can see mouflons. You will discover the ancient Tajik village in the Karisay valley. Return to the village. Dinner and overnight stay in the village.

• day 12:

  Hayat - Jizzax - Samarcande - 220 km

  

  We have breakfast. Continuation of trekking on the mountains and this morning you will take the direction of Hayatbochi peak, where you will see the mouflons and the birds of the mountain. On the way you will pass through the forest. 2200 m at altitude level. Arrival and picnic on the summit. Then you will discover a beautiful landscape, return to the village Hayat. Drive to Samarkand. Arrival and accommodation in hotel. Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 13:

  Samarcande

  

  Breakfast at the hotel. Guided tour of Samarkand: You will start your visit with the Bibi Khanoum mosque, the "Siyob" market, the mausoleum of our first president Islam Karimov where you will discover a beautiful view of Samarkand and the Shakhi Zinda necropolis where each mausoleum is covered with a fully decorated turquoise blue dome dating back to the XI -XV centuries. Lunch at leisure. Visit with the Samarkand parchment workshop (produced in the ancestral way from the bark of the murier tree), the silk carpet factory and the observatory of Ulugh Beg. Lunch at leisure. Guided visit of the Afrociabe museum with its frescoes dating from the 7th and 8th centuries. Optional: Musical show and presentation of historical costumes in Samarkand. Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 14:

  Samarcande - Mayintepa - Samarcande - 280 km

  

  Breakfast. Departure to Mayintepa through a more cultivated, richer countryside. On the way, you will stop at a typical Central Asian steppe village. Welcome by a family and lunch at the inhabitant's house where you will taste the traditional cooking. Visit of a school where French is taught, meeting with the schoolchildren, they will write poetry, stories and conjugate verbs (please bring notebooks, pens and pencils to offer to the French-speaking schoolchildren). Meet the villagers and walk on the steppes of the village. Then drive to Samarkand. Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 15:

  Samarcande - Chakhrisabz - Samarcande - 230 km

  

  Breakfast at the hotel. Departure to Shakrisabz the birthplace of Tamerlane. Guided tour of the White Palace - Ak Sarail of Tamerlane, Dorout Tilovat complex which consists of Chamsiddin Kulol and Gumbazi Saidon mausoleums, Kok Gumbaz mosque, and the second Dorus Siyadat complex which consists of Hazrati Imam mosque and mausoleum of Jahangir Sultan, the eldest son of Timur, all monuments of the city recently restored by the Uzbek government, you will discover a beautiful Uzbek city Lunch at leisure. This afternoon return to Samarkand. Dinner at leisure. Transfer to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 16:

  Samarkand - Tashkent (by train)

  

  cande - Tashkent (by train) Breakfast. Continuation of the guided tour through Reghistan Square, surrounded by its three medersas: Ulugh Beg, the oldest, Shir Dor "the Lion Medersa", and Tillia Kari, the mausoleum of the Gur Emir, the tomb of Tamerlane, as well as the Roukhabad (outside visit), dating from the 14th century, and the Ak Sarai (outside visit). Lunch at leisure. Personal discovery in the ancient city. Transfer to the railway station for the fast train "Afrosiyob" at 17:30-19:40, arrival in Tashkent, welcome by your driver. Free dinner. Transfer to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 17:

  Tachkent - Kokand - Richtan - Fergana (by train) - 100 km

  

  Breakfast. Transfer to the railway station to take the fast train to Kokand at 08:05-12:16. Arrival in Kokand and welcome by your driver. Lunch at leisure. Then visit of Khudoyor Khan's palace, the Friday mosque and the Royal cemetery. Continuation on the road to Richtan and visit of the Richtan ceramic workshop, you will discover the secret and the technique of the famous blue ceramics of this city. Drive to Fergana, arrival and accommodation in the hotel. Dinner at leisure. Night in the hotel.

• day 18:

  Fergana - Marguilan - Fergana - 80 km

  

  Breakfast. Walk in the national park of the city named after Akhmed al Ferganiy, a great mathematician of his time, who lived in the 9th century and drive to Marguilan. Guided tour of the city's typical market and silk factory which is unique in the country, visit the weaver's workshop and see the procedure of weaving the famous atlas fabric, weaving silk carpets, cocoons and windings, the Khanakha Mosque and the central market of the city. Lunch at leisure. Return to Fergana. Free time for personal discovery. Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 19:

  Fergana - Tachkent - 300 km

  

  After breakfast you will take the road to Tashkent. After breakfast you will take the road to Tashkent through the Tian Shan mountains over the Kamchik pass with 2300 m altitude. On the way you will make some stops to take beautiful pictures of Uzbek landscape. Lunch at leisure. Drive to Tashkent. Arrival and check-in at the hotel. Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 20:

  Tachkent

  

  Breakfast. Walk around the Independence Square and Amir Temur Park, the Museum of Applied Arts, the Uzbek metro. Lunch at leisure. Visit of the monument of Courage, the square of Friendship of Peoples and the presidential residence of our president Islam Karimov. Dinner at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

• day 21:

  Tachkent - Paris

  

  Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the international airport for the flight to Paris by an airline. Formalities and customs control.