Uzbekistan - The Country Of Blue Domes

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival to Tashkent (night in Tashkent) check in at14:00

Pass By: Tashkent, Tashkent, Tashkent Province
"City of bread", "City of friendship", "Gates of the East". Sunny Tashkent - the city is absolutely different from all the cities of Uzbekistan which combines the old city with the traditions and Europeanized modern city with the monuments of the colonial style of the era of tsarist Russia. With us in one day you will be able to get acquainted with the fabulous city. Our professional guides and drivers will help you feel the admiration of the city.

Stop At: Ensemble Hazrati Imam, Zarkainar Street / Qorasaroy Street, Tashkent Uzbekistan
Historical - architectural complex Hasit Imam is the most important place of pilgrimage in the city where you can visit madrassas Barakhan and Tillesheyh, mosques and mausoleum one of the first imams of Tashkent. And more important, here you can see the only in Central Asia and one of the 4 manuscripts of Holy Koran of the VII century
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Monument of Courage Earthquake Memorial, Corner of Sharaf Rashidov Ave and Abdulla Kadiry Street, Tashkent Uzbekistan
Monument of Courage Earthquake Memorial, Tashkent Uzbekistan "Monument of Courage" - the whole city of Tashkent which you see appeared after the earthquake of 1966. The city was rebuilt anew and in honor of the restoration at the epicenter of the disaster was erected this monument.
Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Chorsu Bazaar, Navoi St. 48 Shayhan Taurski District, Tashkent Uzbekistan
The oldest Bazaar in Uzbekistan. Charsu Bazaar is the heart of the old city, the real Eastern market of the modern city.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Metro Taschkent, Little Ring Rd, Tashkent 100097 Uzbekistan
The first metro in Central Asia and one of the most beautiful sights in Asia. No wonder it is called the underground Museum of Tashkent because none of the stations repeat the decor of the other, each station has a different shape and individual approach.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Uzbekistan State Museum of Applied Art, Rakatboshi st. 15, Tashkent 100031 Uzbekistan
Museum of Applied Arts - once the home of a Russian merchant and now one of the best introduction to national applied art.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Independence Square (Mustakillik Square), Tashkent Uzbekistan
The Independence Square (Mustaqilliq Maidoni) is the main square of the country with the administrative offices of the Cabinet and the Senate. Now this place is a symbol of independence of Uzbekistan but once was the administrative center of the russian tsarist and communist regimes.
Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Navoi Opera Theater, Ataturk Str. 28, Tashkent 100029 Uzbekistan
Bolshoi theatre of Opera and Ballet - the first Opera and ballet theater in Central Asia and now one of the visit cards of modern Tashkent. One of the best examples of the combination of folk art with Neoclassicism.
Duration: 20 minutes

Pass By: Amir Temur Square, Mirabad District, Tashkent Uzbekistan
Amir Timur Square - the heart of modern Tashkent. The place where were formed first University and Bank of Central Asia. The place where once stood the monuments to Stalin and Marx and now the monument to Tamerlane.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Hotel Arien Plaza 3* or alternative

Day 2: Tashkent - Urgench - Khiva flight (night in Khiva)

Pass By: Khiva, Khiva, Xorazm Province
In the morning departure from Tashkent to Urgench then 30 km transfer to Khiva

Stop At: Itchan Kala, Khiva Uzbekistan
- "City of a Thousand Minarets"
- "Open-air Museum"
- "City as 1001 Nights of Shahrazad"
- The first city in Central Asia that was accepted into the world heritage list of UNESCO
- The most authentic city in Central Asia
- The only city in Central Asia that stands on the same place where it was founded
- The city has 2 Khan's residences, more than 10 minarets, more than 20 madrassas, about 5 mosques and mausoleums of saints and etc.
Duration: 6 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Hotel Arkanchi 3* or alternative

Day 3: Khiva - Bukhara train/car (night in Bukhara)

Stop At: Khiva, Khiva, Xorazm Province
Transfer to the city of Bukhara by train (the company retains the rights to change the train to overland transport)
Duration: 6 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Hotel Boutique Devon or alternative

Day 4: Bukhara (night in Bukhara)

Pass By: Bukhara, Bukhara, Bukhara Province
The dome of Islam! The Holy city!
Not without reason was said that, Samarkand is the "Pearl of the East" and Bukhara is the "Pillar of Islam".

Stop At: Samanid Mausoleum, M. Ashrafi Street Samonids Recreation Park, Bukhara Uzbekistan
- The first mausoleum of Central Asia
- The second mausoleum of the Islamic world
- Mausoleum of the founder of the first local Emperor of Central Asia
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Chasma Ayub Mausoleum, Pistaskkanon St, Bukhara Uzbekistan
The water supply Museum of the city of Bukhara at the same time the mausoleum of "St. Jehovah"
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Moschea Bolo-khauz, Registan square, Bukhara Uzbekistan
The mosque which has the highest columns in the city.
Also called as Chilustun (40 columns) although only has 20 columns but on the reservoir when reflected you can see something else
Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Ark of Bukhara, Afrosiab St, Bukhara Uzbekistan
The winter residence of the Bukhara emirs, called Ark was considered a "city within the city".
Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Po-i-Kalyan, Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Visit card of Bukhara - Poi Kalyan complex consisting of three monuments as:
- Kalon minaret - the highest minaret of the city and one of the three monuments of the pre-Mongol invasion
- Kalon mosque - the medieval largest mosque of the city was restored in the 16th century after the Mongol destruction
- Mir Arab madrassah is the only higher spiritual educational institution that has never ceased to function since the founding including the former Soviet Union, to this days boys studying here
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Ulugbek Madrasah, Bukhara Uzbekistan
The oldest madrasa in Bukhara and the only monument of the Timurid period in the city
Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Abdulaziz-Khan Madrasah, Khodja Nurobobod St., Bukhara Uzbekistan
The most magnificent madrassah of Bukhara and the first monument where had began to use the yellow color
Duration: 20 minutes

Pass By: Bukhara, Bukhara, Bukhara Province
Visiting three trade domes of XVI th century
- Toqi Zargaron
- Toqi Telpakfurushon
- Toqi Sarrafon

Stop At: Magoki Attor Mosque, 55 Mekhtar Anbar Str., Buxoro 200118, Uzbekistan
The first mosque is not only the city but the whole of Uzbekistan.
Before the Islam was a place where pagans used to sell idols.
Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Lyab-i-Hauz, B. Nakshabandi, Bukhara Uzbekistan
The center of social life of Bukhara which is intensively animated in the evening and where you can see monuments as:
- Kukeldash madrasah
- Nadir Divanbegi madrassah
- Hanaka (dwelling) Divanbegi for dervishes
Duration: 1 hour

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Hotel Boutique Devon or alternative

Day 5: Bukhara - Samarkand train/car (night in Samarkand)

Pass By: Bukhara, Bukhara, Bukhara Province
Today we will continue our tour to outside of city
Then transfer to the city of Samarkand by train (the company retains the rights to change the train to overland transport)

Stop At: Chor-Minor, Khodja Nurobobod Street, Bukhara Uzbekistan
One of the symbols of the city of Bukhara and extraordinary for Central Asia in architecture which in real is a madrassah
Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Palace of Moon-like Stars (Sitorai-Mokhi-Khosa), Bukhara Uzbekistan
The only residence preserved from the last Emir of Bukhara which is different in architecture from anything you've seen
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari Shrine, Bukhara, Uzbekistan
The Holy complex, the local population and is a major centre of Sufism in Central Asia
Duration: 1 hour

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Hotel Boutique Sultan or alternative, Hotel Asia 3* or alternative

Day 6: Samarkand (night in Samarkand)

Pass By: Samarkand, Samarkand, Samarqand Province
"Rome of the East", "Pearl of Asia", "Amazing Samarkand"
Not without reason Alexander the great said that "More beautiful than I expected"

Stop At: Gur Emir Mausoleum, Samarkand Uzbekistan
The medieval mausoleum whose interior decoration is gilded and was built for the great Tamerlane and his male descendants.
Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Shah-i-Zinda, Samarkand Uzbekistan
Most importantly, the only place in Central Asia where a relative of the prophet was buried. The complex consists of about 20 mausoleums. Female tomb of Tamerlan's family.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Observatory of Ulugbek Samarkand, Toshkent yo'li, Samarqand, Uzbekistan
The Observatory was built by Ulughbek who was grandson of Tamerlan. Ulugbek is the only astronomer in the Islamic world who was in parallel the head of empire.
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Afrasiyab Museum, Toshkent yo'li, Samarkand 140164 Uzbekistan
The only museum in Uzbekistan where preserved frescoes from the pre-arabic period of Central Asia (VII A.C.)
Duration: 40 minutes

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Hotel Boutique Sultan or alternative, Hotel Asia 3* or alternative

Day 7: Samarkand - Tashkent train (night in Tashkent)

Pass By: Samarkand, Samarkand, Samarqand Province
Today we will continue the tour of the city
In the evening transfer to Tashkent by train (the company retains the rights to change the train to overland transport)

Stop At: Registan St, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Samarkand 140164 Uzbekistan
Registan - visit card not only of the city or Uzbekistan but also of the entire middle East. The complex that is "the cherry on the cake" of your visit to Uzbekistan
- Madrassah Ulughbek
- Madrassah Sherdar
- Madrassah Tillakari
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Bibi Khanym Mosque, Guzarskiy Lane, Samarkand 140164 Uzbekistan
The largest mosque in Central Asia including Iran. It was built by Tamerlane's beloved wife in honor of the victory over India.
Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Hazrat Khizr Mosque, Tashkent Rd, Samarkand 140164 Uzbekistan
The first mosque of Samarkand where the first President of the Republic was buried.
Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Siab Bazaar, Bibikhonim Str., Samarqand, Uzbekistan
Siyab - Oriental Bazaar with spices, fresh and dry fruits and of course the famous Samarkand bread.
Duration: 30 minutes

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Hotel Arien Plaza 3* or alternative