Adventures by Train

Culture and History tour in Tashkent

Tour Price : under request Duration : 7 days Languages: English

Program includes: Accommodation in 3-4* hotels throughout Uzbekistan. Train tickets Tashkent – Samarkand – Bukhara – Tashkent. Breakfast. Services for private cars with driver per program. Local English (French) - speaking guides for all sightseeing and excursions. Entrance fees to sites listed. All airport transfers. Visa support.

Day 1. Tashkent. Arrive to Tashkent's airport, meet and greet service, transfer to hotel.

Day 2. Transfer to the Tashkent Train station, “Shark” High speed comfortable train to Samarkand (08:00-11:40), transfer to the hotel. Evening short tour to the heart of Samarkand: Registan square - Medreseh Ulughbek (15th c.), Medreseh Shir-Dor (17th c.), Medreseh Tilla-Kori (17th c.)

Day 3. Full day city tour in Samarkand: Ulugbek Observatory (15th c.). Excavations and museum of the ancient city of Afrosiyab, Architectural complex Shakhi-Zindeh (11-15th c.), Mausoleum Guri Emir - Tamerlane's Tomb (14-15th c.), Bibi-Khonum Mosque.

Day 4. Transfer to Samarkand train station, “Shark” train to Bukhara (12:00-16:00), transfer to the hotel (15km). Evening free on Lyabi Hauze square.

Day 5. City tour in Bukhara: Citadel Ark (4th c. BC), Samanides Mausoleum (9-10th c.), Chashma Ayub(14th c.), Bolo-Hauz Mosque (beginning of the 20th c.), Coumpol bazaar, Medreseh Nodir-Divan-Beghi, complex Lyabi-Khauz (14-17th c.), Minaret Kalon (12th c.), Kalyan Mosque (12th c.), Medreseh Miri Arab (16th c.).

Day 6. A trip out of the city for a visit to Bahouddin Nakshbandi mausoleum (16-19th c.), to the sepulchers of his mother and his preceptor (14th c.), mausoleum Chor-Bakr (10th c.), visit to summer residence Sitorai-Mokhi-Hossa (19th c.). Transfer to the train station, overnight train to Tashkent.

Day 7. Meeting at Tashkent train station. Short stop over at nearest hotel (Grand Orzu) for breakfast only. City tour around Tashkent: Independence Square, Navoi Theater square, Barak-Khan Madrasah (16th c.), The Kaffal-Shashi mausoleum (15th c.), Kukeldash Madrasah (16th c.), the Djuma mosque (9th c.), Museum of Applied Arts, Amir Temur square, Tashkent National Arts Centre, local "Broadway" - a walking street with artists, cheap souvenirs and eating places, city fountains and modern monuments.

Transfer to the airport, flight for the next destination.

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