Uzbekistan in Depth: 14 Days
Fergana Valley – Khiva – Bukhara – Samarkand, Uzbekistan
14 Days / 13 Nights
Max 10 People
Easy
Tour Guide
Meals Included
Description
Two weeks to see the whole country, not just its famous skyline. The trip begins in the green Fergana Valley, the land of silk and ceramics: the khan's palace in Kokand, a potter's workshop in Rishtan and the looms of Margilan. Then it flies west to Khiva and follows the Silk Road back east through Bukhara, a night in a desert yurt camp and Samarkand.
With two days in Bukhara and three in and around Samarkand, the pace leaves time to stop, shop and sit in a tea house.
Not included: international flights, lunches and dinners (except at the yurt camp), travel insurance, camera fees at some monuments, tips and personal expenses.
Itinerary
Airport pick-up and rest. Afternoon walk in the old town: the Hazrati Imam complex, Chorsu Bazaar and the Kukeldash Madrasa.
Early train or drive over the Kamchik Pass into the Fergana Valley. In Kokand, the Khudayar Khan palace and the Juma Mosque with its painted wooden columns. Continue to Rishtan to meet a master of the blue-glazed pottery the town is known for. Overnight in Fergana.
In Margilan, watch silk being unwound, dyed and woven into ikat at the Yodgorlik factory, and visit the Said Ahmad Khoja Madrasa. On Thursdays and Sundays, add the busy Kumtepa bazaar. Afternoon train or drive back to Tashkent.
Flight to Urgench and transfer to Khiva. Afternoon walk in Itchan Kala and sunset from the city walls.
A full guided day in the walled town: the Kunya-Ark citadel, the Juma Mosque, the Tash Hauli palace, the Pahlavan Mahmud Mausoleum and the Islam Khoja minaret.
About 450 km by road through the desert along the Amu Darya, arriving in Bukhara in the late afternoon.
Lyab-i Hauz, the trading domes, the Magoki Attori Mosque, the Kalyan Minaret and Po-i-Kalyan, Mir-i-Arab Madrasa, the Ark fortress and the Samanid Mausoleum.
The Sitorai Mokhi-Khosa summer palace, the Bahauddin Naqshband complex and the Chor Bakr necropolis. Free afternoon.
A ceramics workshop in Gijduvan, the fortress ruins and holy spring of Nurata, then a yurt camp in the desert near Aydarkul Lake: a camel ride, dinner and an evening by the campfire.
Morning at the lake, then about 4 hours' drive to Samarkand. Evening visit to Registan Square.
Registan Square in daylight, the Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum, the Bibi-Khanym Mosque, Siyob Bazaar, Shah-i-Zinda and the Ulugh Beg Observatory.
Day trip over the Takhtakaracha Pass to Timur's birthplace: the Ak-Saray palace, the Kok Gumbaz Mosque, the Dorut Tilovat and Dorus Saodat complexes. Back in Samarkand for the evening.
Morning at the Meros paper workshop in Konigil and the Afrasiab Museum on the site of ancient Samarkand. Afternoon high-speed train to Tashkent.
Breakfast and transfer to Tashkent International Airport.
What's Included
- 12 nights in 3-star or boutique hotels and 1 night in a yurt camp (shared yurts)
- Daily breakfast, plus dinner at the yurt camp
- Flight Tashkent – Urgench (economy)
- Train tickets Tashkent – Kokand and Samarkand – Tashkent (or the same trips by car)
- Private air-conditioned car or minivan with driver for all other transfers and drives
- Camel ride at the yurt camp
- English-speaking local guide in each city
- Entrance tickets to the sites in the programme
Tour Map
- 1Tashkent
- 2Kokand
- 3Rishtan
- 4Fergana
- 5Margilan
- 6Return to Tashkent
- 7Urgench Airport
- 8Khiva
- 9Bukhara
- 10Nurata Fortress and Chashma complex
- 11Aydarkul Lake and yurt camp
- 12Samarkand
- 13Shakhrisabz
- 14Return to Tashkent
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