Tur itinerary:

Day 0 (Sun.): Departure to Ashgabat
Departure to Ashgabat by flight TK 322 at 21:25 or TK 324 at 23:35.

Day 1 (Mon.): Ashgabat - arrival
Arrival to Ashgabat at 04:00 or 06:10. Meeting at the Airport in Ashgabat. Transfer to the hotel. Check in and overnight at the hotel. Free time for rest after a long flight.

 

Day 2 (Tue.): Ashgabat
Breakfast. Ashgabat city tour.
Sightseeing you explore this day:

• Independence Park;
• Monuments of Neutrality;
• Ertogrul Gazi mosque;
• Parthian Royal Residence Old Nisa;
• National Museum of History & Ethnography of Turkmenistan.

Overnight at the hotel.

 

Day 3 (Wed.): Ashgabat - Mary - Merv - Ashgabat
Early breakfast. Morning Flight to Mary. Excursion to Ancient Merv. Return to Mary. Continue to airport to have domestic flight to Ashgabat. Arrival to Ashgabat.
Sightseeing you explore this day:

• Erk Kala;
• Gyaur Kala;
• Sultan Kala;
• Mausoleum of Sultan Sanjar;
• Mausoleum of Ibn Zaid;
• The remains of Castle - fortresses "Keshk";
• Tombs of Guifari and Bureida;
• Museum of History.

Overnight at the hotel.

 

Day 4 (Thu.): Ashgabat - Dashoguz - Kunya Urgench - border point Dashoguz - Khiva
Early breakfast. Morning flight to Dashoguz. Arrival to Dashoguz, drive to Kunya Urgench. City tour. Return drive to Dashoguz. Transfer to Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan border point. Border formalities on both sides. On Uzbekistan side meet the driver and drive to Khiva - the only "Museum under the open sky" in Central Asia that has been completely preserved up to the present day. Arrival to Khiva, check in to the hotel, located inside or nearby Ichan-Qala - the historical center of Khiva which has been inscribed into the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Sightseeing you explore this day:

• Mausoleum of Turabek-Khanym;
• Mausoleum of Sultan Tekesh;
• Mausoleum of Sultan Il Arslan;
• Mausoleum of Najmad-din-Kubra;
• Kutlug Timur minaret & Kyrk Molla.

Overnight at the hotel.

 

Day 5 (Fri.): Khiva
Breakfast in the hotel. City tour around the architectural complex Ichan-Qala (12-19^th cc.). Ensemble consists of the smallest madrassah in Khiva and a minaret whose top platform has a height of 45m and is the highest observation point in town. Free time.
Sightseeing you explore this day:

• Kunya-Ark;
• Kalta-Minor Minaret;
• Madrassah of Muhammad Amin-khan;
• Djuma Mosque and Minaret;
• Ak-Mosque;
• Necropolis of Pakhlavan Makhmud;
• Islam-Khodja Madrassah and Minaret.

Overnight in Khiva.

 

Day 6 (Sat.): Khiva - Bukhara
Breakfast. Coach trip to Bukhara via Kizil-Kum desert along Caravan road (480 km, 5-7 hrs). Arrival to Sacred Bukhara - one of the most esteemed cities of Islamic civilization. Hotel accommodation. Free time for rest and walking through the old streets of Bukhara. One of the "1000 and 1 nights" in Bukhara.
Day 7 (Sun.): Bukhara
Breakfast. City tour.
Sightseeing you explore this day:

• Ark fortress;
• Mausoleum of the Samanids;
• Chasma-Ayub Mazar;
• Poi-Kalyan ensemble;
• Magoki-Attari Mosque;
• Lyabi-Hauz ensemble;
• 1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd Trade Domes;
• Ulugbek Madrassah;
• Chor-Minor Madrassah;
• Catholic Church.

Overnight in a quiet and cozy Bukhara hotel.

 

Day 8 (Mon.): Bukhara - Shakhrisabz - Samarkand
Breakfast. Transfer to Samarkand via Shakhrisabz - a unique monument of town-planning and architecture (270 km, 3.5 hrs). Shakhrisabz tour. The Golden Road to the historical town of Samarkand - a crossroad of the world's cultures, one of the most ancient cities in the world (90 km, 1.5 hrs). Hotel accommodation and free time.
Sightseeing you explore this day:

• Ak-Saray palace;
• Kok Gumbaz Mosque.

Overnight in the city that is a contemporary of ancient Rome and has a history of more than 2500-years.

 

Day 9 (Tue.): Samarkand
Breakfast. City tour.
Sightseeing you explore this day:

• Gur-Emir Mausoleum;
• Registan Square;
• Bibi-Khanym Mosque;
• Shahi-Zinda necropolis;
• Siab bazaar.

Overnight in the capital of Tamerlane's Empire.

 

Day 10 (Wed.): Samarkand - Tashkent
Breakfast. Drive to Tashkent (315 km, 5 hrs). Arrival to Tashkent at 11:25. City tour.
Sightseeing you explore this day:

• Ulugbek Observatory;
• The architectural complex Khazret-Imam;
• Barak-khan Madrassah;
• Tellya Sheikh Madrassah;
• Kukeldash Madrassah;
• Jami Mosque;
• Chorsu - oriental bazaar;
• Abdulkasim Madrassah.
• New Tashkent Television Tower;
• Memorial to the Victims of Repression;
• Monument of Courage.

Overnight in Tashkent.

 

Day 11 (Thu.): Tashkent
Early transfer to Tashkent Airport for morning flight to Istanbul (TK 371 at 04:20).
Depart Uzbekistan with sweet memories and the longing to return again!

We hope you like the program and assure you that we are absolutely open to any suggestions to increase the range of our services for the complete satisfaction of our clients and are happy to meet your special requirements.

You can alter the duration of your tour and places of visit by adding one of our extensions. Our tour operator will work closely with you or your travel agent to carefully prepare an itinerary based on your stated interests.