Tour "Fabulous East: Samarkand and Bukhara in the whole kars"
Tashkent – Bukhara – Samarkand
5 days
duration
1-6
number of persons
3
number of cities
from 497$
cost per person
The "FABulous EAST" tour: SAMARKAND AND BUKHARA IN ALL it's glory"
Tashkent – Bukhara – Samarkand
5 days
duration
1-6
number of persons
3
number of cities
from 497$
cost per person
The fabulous east
Welcome to Uzbekistan! Fabulous country with it's ancient history, rich culture and amazing architecture. We are pleased to offer you to visit the most charming three cities of Uzbekistan: Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara.
In Tashkent, noisy capital, you will discover a striking combination of old traditions and modern vibrant life.
After that you will visit Samarqand with it's majestic boulevards, ornated mosques and colorful markets. It will be firework of feelings.
Then you will go to Bukhara, antient city which was very important fortrading on the Grate Silk Road. You will see winding streets, visit amazing mosques and madrassahs and discover rich history of the city to yourslef.
All tour long you will feel people's hospitality, try national couzine and enjoy spectacular architecture and history of these cities.
In Tashkent, noisy capital, you will discover a striking combination of old traditions and modern vibrant life.
After that you will visit Samarqand with it's majestic boulevards, ornated mosques and colorful markets. It will be firework of feelings.
Then you will go to Bukhara, antient city which was very important fortrading on the Grate Silk Road. You will see winding streets, visit amazing mosques and madrassahs and discover rich history of the city to yourslef.
All tour long you will feel people's hospitality, try national couzine and enjoy spectacular architecture and history of these cities.
Tour description
Route:
Tashkent – Bukhara – Samarkand
Tour duration:
5 days, 4 nights
Tour language:
Russian / English
breakfasts are included in the price.
Nutrition:
Difficulty level:
light, great for getting to know the country.
Best time to visit:
April/May/September/October.
Movement type:
auto transport
The fabulous east
Tour description
Welcome to Uzbekistan! Fsbulous country with it's ancient history, rich culture and amazing architecture. We are pleased to offer you to visit the most charming three cities of Uzbekistan: Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara.
In Tashkent, noisy capital, you will discover a striking combination of old traditions and modern vibrant life.
After that you will visit Samarqand with it's majestic boulevards, ornated mosques and colorful markets. It will be firework of feelings.
Then you will go to Bukhara, antient city which was very important fortrading on the Grate Silk Road. You will see winding streets, visit amazing mosques and madrassahs and discover rich history of the city to yourslef.
All tour long you will feel people's hospitality, try national couzine and enjoy spectacular architecture and history of these cities.
In Tashkent, noisy capital, you will discover a striking combination of old traditions and modern vibrant life.
After that you will visit Samarqand with it's majestic boulevards, ornated mosques and colorful markets. It will be firework of feelings.
Then you will go to Bukhara, antient city which was very important fortrading on the Grate Silk Road. You will see winding streets, visit amazing mosques and madrassahs and discover rich history of the city to yourslef.
All tour long you will feel people's hospitality, try national couzine and enjoy spectacular architecture and history of these cities.
Route
Tashkent – Bukhara – Samarkand
Tour duration:
5 days, 4 nights
Tour language:
Russian / English
Nutrition:
breakfasts are included in the price.
Tour program
Day 1. Tashkent
Arrival in Tashkent. Meeting with the driver at the airport. Transfer to the hotel, leave things at the reception. (check-in at the hotel at 14:00)
We leave for a sightseeing tour of the city of Tashkent. The capital of Uzbekistan is Tashkent, a city that has several faces. The first look of a modern city, striving for the future, with its new residential buildings, business centers looking at you everywhere, a different look, a city of the Soviet era: green wide avenues, socialist modern architecture, a city that revolted after the 1966 earthquake.
We will visit the Museum of Applied Arts, which contains the pearls of applied art, created by the hands of masters, from the first half of the 19th century to the present day. Amir Timur and Independence Squares.
13:00 Lunch (extra charge). After lunch, we will visit the Old City, where the religious center of Tashkent is located - the Khast-Imam complex, where the famous Koran of Caliph Osman (VII century) is kept. In KhastImam, visit the Barak Khan Madrassah, the Tilla Sheikh Mosque and the Kaffal Shashi Mausoleum. Visiting the Chorsu Bazaar, you will immerse yourself in the atmosphere of a real colorful bazaar, shopping arcades with an abundance of seasonal fruits and vegetables, dried fruits and nuts, spices are waiting for you. Fresh and fragrant cakes are baked right there and taken out of the tandoor. You can also find leather and fur products, you will be surprised by the variety of fabrics and bright oriental prints.
The duration of the tour is 5-6 hours.
Overnight at the hotel in Tashkent.
We leave for a sightseeing tour of the city of Tashkent. The capital of Uzbekistan is Tashkent, a city that has several faces. The first look of a modern city, striving for the future, with its new residential buildings, business centers looking at you everywhere, a different look, a city of the Soviet era: green wide avenues, socialist modern architecture, a city that revolted after the 1966 earthquake.
We will visit the Museum of Applied Arts, which contains the pearls of applied art, created by the hands of masters, from the first half of the 19th century to the present day. Amir Timur and Independence Squares.
13:00 Lunch (extra charge). After lunch, we will visit the Old City, where the religious center of Tashkent is located - the Khast-Imam complex, where the famous Koran of Caliph Osman (VII century) is kept. In KhastImam, visit the Barak Khan Madrassah, the Tilla Sheikh Mosque and the Kaffal Shashi Mausoleum. Visiting the Chorsu Bazaar, you will immerse yourself in the atmosphere of a real colorful bazaar, shopping arcades with an abundance of seasonal fruits and vegetables, dried fruits and nuts, spices are waiting for you. Fresh and fragrant cakes are baked right there and taken out of the tandoor. You can also find leather and fur products, you will be surprised by the variety of fabrics and bright oriental prints.
The duration of the tour is 5-6 hours.
Overnight at the hotel in Tashkent.
Day 2. Tashkent – Bukhara
Breakfast in the hotel.
06:20 Transfer hotel-station.
07:28-11:25 Transfer to the city of Bukhara. Transfer to the hotel in Bukhara, leaving things.
12:00 Meeting in the hotel lobby with a guide. We go on a walking tour of the old Bukhara.
Bukhara is the center of international trade, a living city-museum, with a huge number of secrets and legends, which has preserved its history for more than 2500 years.
It will surprise you with its architecture and introduce you to the ancient crafts of masters - carpet weavers, miniaturists
You will visit:
Complex Lyabi Hauz, a favorite place of citizens, consisting of three architectural monuments: Kukeldash Madrasah, Nodir Madrasah
Sofa Run and Khanaka
Magoki-Attori Mosque
Chor-Minor Madrasah
On the way there will be ancient trading domes and caravanserais
Lunch in a tea house (for additional payment)
The "Poi Kalyan" complex includes - Kalon Mosque and Kalyan Minaret, Mir-Arab Madrassah Ulugbek Madrassah and Abdulazizkhan Madrassah
Ark fortress, Bolo-Khauz mosque, Samanid mausoleum and Chashma-Ayub mausoleum
The time tour will take 6-7 hours including lunch
Overnight at the hotel in Bukhara
06:20 Transfer hotel-station.
07:28-11:25 Transfer to the city of Bukhara. Transfer to the hotel in Bukhara, leaving things.
12:00 Meeting in the hotel lobby with a guide. We go on a walking tour of the old Bukhara.
Bukhara is the center of international trade, a living city-museum, with a huge number of secrets and legends, which has preserved its history for more than 2500 years.
It will surprise you with its architecture and introduce you to the ancient crafts of masters - carpet weavers, miniaturists
You will visit:
Complex Lyabi Hauz, a favorite place of citizens, consisting of three architectural monuments: Kukeldash Madrasah, Nodir Madrasah
Sofa Run and Khanaka
Magoki-Attori Mosque
Chor-Minor Madrasah
On the way there will be ancient trading domes and caravanserais
Lunch in a tea house (for additional payment)
The "Poi Kalyan" complex includes - Kalon Mosque and Kalyan Minaret, Mir-Arab Madrassah Ulugbek Madrassah and Abdulazizkhan Madrassah
Ark fortress, Bolo-Khauz mosque, Samanid mausoleum and Chashma-Ayub mausoleum
The time tour will take 6-7 hours including lunch
Overnight at the hotel in Bukhara
Day 3. Bukhara - Samarkand
Breakfast in the hotel
10:00 Half-day excursion outside the city of Bukhara.
We will visit the shrine of Bahautdin Nakshbandi, who served as the center of the Sufi order. Sufism is a teaching that is aimed at personal spiritual growth, as well as the practice of a person's struggle with his spiritual defects.
Then we will go and see the summer residence of the last Emir Mohi-Khos. The architecture of this palace surprisingly combines the details of oriental and Russian decor.
Lunch (extra charge)
At 14:40 transfer to the railway station. The Afrosiab train leaves for Samarkand at 15:52 and arrives at 17:25 (270 km).
Meeting at the station and transfer to the hotel.
Location, rest.
Overnight in Samarkand.
10:00 Half-day excursion outside the city of Bukhara.
We will visit the shrine of Bahautdin Nakshbandi, who served as the center of the Sufi order. Sufism is a teaching that is aimed at personal spiritual growth, as well as the practice of a person's struggle with his spiritual defects.
Then we will go and see the summer residence of the last Emir Mohi-Khos. The architecture of this palace surprisingly combines the details of oriental and Russian decor.
Lunch (extra charge)
At 14:40 transfer to the railway station. The Afrosiab train leaves for Samarkand at 15:52 and arrives at 17:25 (270 km).
Meeting at the station and transfer to the hotel.
Location, rest.
Overnight in Samarkand.
Day 4. Samarkand - Tashkent
Breakfast in the hotel.
10:00 Excursion around Samarkand.
The city of Tamerlane will tell you how science developed.
We will see Gur-Emir - the place where the great commander Tamerlane rests, who recreated the great empire.
The famous Registan Square with its three madrasahs of Ulugbek, Sherdor and Tillakori. Lunch (extra charge)
Next, you will find the beautiful Bibi-Khanum, with an incredible love story.
Siab Bazaar, where you can buy souvenirs and find handicrafts.
Khazrati Khizr and Shakhi-Zinda with her blue-turquoise majolica.
Observatory of Ulugbek, the grandson of Tamerlane, the ruler of Samarkand and the great scientist of the Middle Ages.
After the tour, transfer to the railway station in Samarkand. Departure to Tashkent
Overnight at the hotel in Tashkent.
10:00 Excursion around Samarkand.
The city of Tamerlane will tell you how science developed.
We will see Gur-Emir - the place where the great commander Tamerlane rests, who recreated the great empire.
The famous Registan Square with its three madrasahs of Ulugbek, Sherdor and Tillakori. Lunch (extra charge)
Next, you will find the beautiful Bibi-Khanum, with an incredible love story.
Siab Bazaar, where you can buy souvenirs and find handicrafts.
Khazrati Khizr and Shakhi-Zinda with her blue-turquoise majolica.
Observatory of Ulugbek, the grandson of Tamerlane, the ruler of Samarkand and the great scientist of the Middle Ages.
After the tour, transfer to the railway station in Samarkand. Departure to Tashkent
Overnight at the hotel in Tashkent.
Day 5. Tashkent
See you soon, Uzbekistan! End of the tour.
Breakfast in the hotel
Check-out from the hotel until 12:00
Transfer to the airport and departure
Breakfast in the hotel
Check-out from the hotel until 12:00
Transfer to the airport and departure
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Additional Information
Please note that the order of excursions and cities may change (depending on the availability of train tickets), the company reserves the right to change excursion dates and days, while the content of the program will remain unchanged. Lunches / dinners that are not included in the tour price are paid on the spot. Lunch time should not exceed more than an hour.
On the day of the tour, the lunch time can be adjusted by the guide in fact, due to various reasons (traffic conditions, longer tour timings)
On the day of the tour, the lunch time can be adjusted by the guide in fact, due to various reasons (traffic conditions, longer tour timings)
Additional Information
Hotels
Comfort rate hotels:
Tashkent: Hilton/ Holiday Inn
Samarkand: Zarafshon Parkside
Bukhara: Sahid Zarafshon
Hotels economy rate:
Tashkent: Old Tashkent / Art Deluxe
Samarkand: Malika Prime
Bukhara: Malika
Or in one level with these hotels.
Tashkent: Hilton/ Holiday Inn
Samarkand: Zarafshon Parkside
Bukhara: Sahid Zarafshon
Hotels economy rate:
Tashkent: Old Tashkent / Art Deluxe
Samarkand: Malika Prime
Bukhara: Malika
Or in one level with these hotels.
The price includes
- Accommodation in hotels 4 nights on the basis of breakfast + tour tax
- Certified local guides
- Transport for the duration of excursions along the route (except Bukhara 1 day on foot)
- Meeting / seeing off at stations / airport along the route
- Railway tickets Tashkent-Samarkand-Bukhara-Tashkent
- Travel agency services
The price not includes
- Flight to Uzbekistan
- Meals lunches and dinners
- Entrance tickets (on average for 1 person in 1 city up to $ 25.)
- Personal expenses
- Insurance
- Tips for guides/drivers.
Hotels
Comfort rate hotels:
Tashkent: Hilton / Holiday Inn
Samarkand: Zarafshon Parkside
Bukhara: Sahid Zarafshon
Hotels economy rate:
Tashkent: Old Tashkent /Art Deluxe
Samarkand: Malika Prime
Bukhara: Malika
or one level with these hotels.
Tashkent: Hilton / Holiday Inn
Samarkand: Zarafshon Parkside
Bukhara: Sahid Zarafshon
Hotels economy rate:
Tashkent: Old Tashkent /Art Deluxe
Samarkand: Malika Prime
Bukhara: Malika
or one level with these hotels.
The price includes
- Accommodation in hotels 4 nights on the basis of breakfast + tour tax
- Certified local guides
- Transport for the duration of excursions along the route (except Bukhara 1 day on foot)
- Meeting / seeing off at stations / airport along the route
- Railway tickets Tashkent-Samarkand-Bukhara-Tashkent
- Travel agency services
The price not includes
- Flight to Uzbekistan
- Meals lunches and dinners
- Entrance tickets (on average for 1 person in 1 city up to $ 25.)
- Personal expenses
- Insurance
- Tips for guides/drivers.
Price
Boutique hotels 3*
1 person
Car type: sedan
Cost per person: 1 250$
1 250$
Car type: minivan
3 persons
Cost per person:711$
2 133$
Cost per person: 722$
1 444$
Car type: sedan
2 persons
4 persons
Car type: minivan
Cost per person: 582$
2 328$
6 persons
Car type: minivan
Cost per person: 497$
2 982$
5 persons
Cost per person: 557$
2 785$
Car type: minivan
Comfort hotels 4*
1 person
Car type: sedan
Cost per person: 1 892$
1 892$
Car type: minivan
3 persons
Cost per person: 1032$
3 096$
Cost per person: 1 070$
2 140$
Car type: sedan
2 persons
4 persons
Car type: minivan
Cost per person: 836$
3 344$
6 persons
Car type: minivan
Cost per person: 730$
4 380$
5 persons
Cost per person: 825$
4 125$
Car type: minivan
Boutique hotels 3*
1 person
Car type: sedan
Cost per person: $1,250
Cost per person: 722$
1 250$
Car type: sedan
2 persons
1 444$
Car type: minivan
3 persons
Cost per person: 711$
2 133$
4 persons
Car type: minivan
Cost per person: 582$
2 328$
6 persons
Car type: minivan
Cost per person: 497$
2 982$
5 persons
Cost per person: 557$
2 785$
Car type: minivan
Comfort hotels 4*
1 person
Car type: sedan
Cost per person: 1 892$
Cost per person: 1 070$
1 892$
Car type: sedan
2 persons
2 140$
Car type: minivan
3 persons
Cost per person: 1 032$
3 096$
4 persons
Car type: minivan
Cost per person: 836$
3 344$
6 persons
Car type: minivan
Cost per person: 730$
4 380$
5 persons
Cost per person: 825$
4 125$
Car type: minivan
3/2 Bobura str. ,Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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3/2 Bobura str. ,Tashkent, Uzbekistan
© 2023 Inside Uzbekistan. All rights reserved.
