Start in Almaty and end in Tashkent!
With the discovery tour Journey through Central Asia, you have a 17 day tour package taking you from Almaty to Bishkek and through Tashkent and 7 other destinations in Asia. Journey through Central Asia Tour is a small group tour that includes accommodation in a hotel as well as meals, transport and more.
Arrive in Almaty
Transfer to the hotel
14:00 Check-in the hotel and free time to rest
Lunch
Almaty city tour:
Visit to the 28 Panfilov’s guardsmen park
The Cathedral church
Museum of national musical instruments
National museum
Republic square
Dinner at a local restaurant
Overnight in the hotel
Breakfast in the hotel
Walking to Charyn canyon and its environs
Transfer: Almaty - Chilik village – Kokpek village – Charyn yon (200 km, 3,5 - 4 hours)
Lunch on the way at the café “Dilmurat”
Walking to Charyn canyon
Back to Almaty
Dinner at a local restaurant
Overnight in the hotel
Breakfast in the hotel
Walking to Medeo gorge and Bogdanovitch glacier by Cable Way.
Transfer: Almaty - “Medeo” valley (25 km)
Back to Almaty
Dinner at a local restaurant
Overnight in the hotel
Transfer Almaty – Korday – 250 km (Kazakh –Kirgiz border)
Pass the border and transfer to Bishkek
Check- in the hotel
Free time for rest
Dinner at a local restaurant
Overnight in the hotel
Breakfast in the hotel
Transfer Bishkek - Issyk-Kul Lake - Cholpon-Ata – Karakol
Today you will be met in Bishkek, the bustling capital of Kyrgyzstan, and driven along the northern shores of Issik-kul Lake to Karkol. On the route we will visit 11th-century BURANA TOWER, an ancient Silk Route staging post. You will have rafting in Boom Valley. In Cholpon Ata you will see the prehistoric PETROGLYPHS. On the way you will be taken for a lunch of traditional Kyrgyz dishes. After you will be transferred to KARAKOL through the rural villages of Eastern Issyk-Kul. On arrival in this picturesque town surrounded by mountains. Here, after dinner at Turkestan Yurt Camp, your evening is at leisure for relaxation and enjoyment of the town.
Overnight at the hotel
Breakfast in the hotel
Transfer Karakol - Djety - Oguz
After breakfast you will be followed by a short city-tour. Highlights include the ORTHODOX HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, CHINESE MOSQUE. Then your adventure brings you to spectacular DJETY-OGUZ, the famous 'Valley of Seven Bulls'. Here you will have short trek along the Dragon Valley. On the plateau you will see Eagle hutting display show. (Optional horse ride). After a leisure to admire the glowing red, sandy cliffs you will be driven back to Karakol
Diner
Overnight at the hotel
Today you must bid farewell to this isolated corner of Eastern Kyrgyzstan. A comfortable car will be waiting to bring you back to BISHKEK with visiting Barskoon valley on the way. In Barskoon valley you will be guided to Waterfall and memorial to Astronauts. This time you will be driven along Issyk Kul's wild SOUTHERN SHORES, completing your circumnavigation of the second largest alpine lake in the world. The road hugs the water's edge and winds through remote Kyrgyz villages of wooden chocolate-box cottages, against an arresting backdrop of the majestic Central Tien Shan Mountains. Then your journey will continue via BOOM GORGE with time to stop for lunch and take photographs. On arrival in Bishkek you will be dropped at the hotel
Free time for rest
Dinner at a local restaurant
Overnight in the hotel
Transfer to Manas airport
Departure flight to Tashkent
Arrival to Tashkent and transfer to the hotel
Check-in the hotel and free time to rest
Dinner
Overnight in the hotel
Breakfast in the hotel
09:00 Meeting with the guide in the lobby of the hotel
09:20 “Old Tashkent” city tour
Hast Imam Complex:
Barak Khan Madres
Tillya Sheikh Mosque
Kafal Ash Shoshi Madres
Sheikh Hazrat Omar Quran
Namaozgoh Mosque (main Friday Tashkent mosque)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Continuation of “Old Tashkent” city tour:
Kukeldash Madres
Visit Chorsu Bazaar
18:00 Dinner
Overnight in the hotel
05:00 Early wake-up call
05:30 Check-out from the hotel and transfer to airport for departure flight to Khiva
Breakfast box on the way to airport
07:10 Departure flight to Urgench (Khiva)
08:40 Arrival at Urgench Airport
09:00 Drive to Khiva
Sight seeing tour on the way to Khiva:
Monument of Jalalliddin Manguberdi
Monument of the first religious book “AVESTA”
Early check-in the hotel
Free time for rest
14:00 Lunch
15:00 “Old Khiva” city tour (Ichan Qala Complex):
Kunya Ark
Kalta Minaret
Tash Houly Palace
Juma Mosque and Juma Minaret
Khazrat Pakhlavan Makhmud Mausoleum
Uch avliya Mausoleum
18:00 Back to the hotel and free time for rest
20:00 Dinner at a local restaurant with a national cultural show
Overnight in the hotel
07:00 Breakfast in the hotel
08:00 Transfer to Bukhara (475 km) across the desert Kyzylkum by road
Lunch on the way
17:00 Arrival to Bukhara
17:30 Check-in the hotel and free time for rest
19:00 Dinner at a local restaurant
Overnight in the hotel
P.S. On photo: "Stone Forest" in the middle of Kyzylkum desert. Dated: Millions of years BC
08:00 Breakfast in the hotel
09:00 Meeting with a guide in the lobby of the hotel
“History of Bukhara” city tour:
Khanaka and Nodir Divan Begi madrasah
Kukeldash madrassah
Monument of Khoja Nasreddin Tim Abdulla-Khan
The mosque Magokki Attori
Kalyan mosque and Kalyan minaret as a symbol of Bukhara
Ulugbek madrassah
Functioning madrassah Mir-I-Arab
Abdullazizkhan madrassah
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Continuation of “History of Bukhara” city tour:
Ark Fortress and Bolo Hauz Ensemble
Samanid’s mausoleums
Poi Kalon Mausoleum
Chorminor Mausoleum
Sitorai Mokhi Khosa (Last Bukhara Emir Palace)
19:00 Back to the hotel and free time for rest
20:00 Dinner at a local restaurant with a national cultural show
Overnight in the hotel
08:00 Breakfast in the hotel
09:00 Check-out from the hotel
10:00 Drive to Samarkand by road via Shakhrisabz
Visit Shakhrisabz – town where Tamirlan is was born:
Ak Saray Palace
Dorus Tilaval Complex
Kok Gumbaz Mosque
Dorus Saidat Complex
14:00 Lunch on the way
18:00 Arrival to Samarkand
18:30 Check-in in the hotel and free time for rest
19:00 Dinner at a local restaurant
Overnight in the hotel
08:00 Breakfast in the hotel
09:30 Samarkand city tour:
Mausoleum Gur Emir- Tomb of Tamerlan
Registan Square: Ulugbek’s madras,
Sherdor madras and Tillya Kari madras;
Bibi Khanum mosque
Visit famous Samarkand Siab Bazaar
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Continuation of Samarkand city tour:
Imam Al Bukhariy Mausoleum
Ulugbek Observatory
Shakhi Zinda Complex
St.Daniel Mausoleum
18:00 Back to the hotel
19:00 Dinner in the local restaurant with national dance show
Overnight in the hotel
09:00 Breakfast in the hotel
11:00 Transfer to the Samarkand railway station
06:37 Departure to Tashkent
08:47 Arrival to Tashkent
Transfer to the hotel
Early check-in the hotel
Free time for rest
Lunch at local restaurant
Shopping in Tashkent:
“SUM” Department Store
Abdulkasim Madras
Dinner at a local restaurant
Overnight in the hotel
09:00 Transfer out of the city to the Chimgan mountain and Charvak Reservoir
13:00 Lunch on open air, entertain with national kebab, non and green tea
Back to the city
Dinner at a local restaurant with national show program
Overnight in the hotel
Check-out from the hotel
Transfer to the airport for departure flight.
