Day 1 Welcome to Tashkent flight to Tashkent.

Old Tashkent - Day 1 Welcome to Tashkent
Flight to Tashkent. Upon arrival, our local guide greets you and brings you to the hotel. (2 nights in the hotel “City Palace” or equivalent).

Day 2 Tashkent and professional program

Tashkentland - (Travel by bus from one “sightseeing object” to another)
Morning city tour with visit to the old town, the famous Khast Imam square and the bazaar. In the afternoon the professional program takes place. For details, see. Please quote the travel advertisement. Travelers who are not interested in the program can discover Tashkent on their own, where it is especially beautiful, your tour guide knows.

Samarkand

Day 4 Samarkand - Bukhara (via the city of Navoi, about 280 km / 5 hours)

Day 5 Bukhara (in the old town almost everything is within walking distance)

Ark of Bukhara - Day 5 Bukhara (in the old town almost everything is within walking distance)
The city of Bukhara committed an official 2500th anniversary in 1997. Your detailed visit begins in the citadel Ark. Then you will discover the landmark of the city, the minaret Kalan, the mosque of the same name and the adjoining medrese Mir-e Arab. Richly decorated, the mausoleum of Ismail Samani welcomes you in the afternoon. The day concludes with an atmospheric folklore show in the Madras Nadir-Diwan-Begi.

ag 6 Bukhara - Khiva (460 km / approx 8 hrs drive, stopping 3-4 times on the way)

Itchan Kala - Day 6 Bukhara - Khiva (460 km / approx 8 hrs drive, stopping 3-4 times on the way)
Steppes line your way to Khiva. Stop by a tearoom. Steaming green tea and grilled treats provide you with new energy. Then we continue along the desert route, with some luck you can see wild camels. Arrival in Khiva in the afternoon. (2 nights in Khiva in Hotel Asia Khiva)

Day 7 Oasis city Khiva

Itchan Kala - Day 7 Oasis city Khiva
(Almost everything in the old town is within walking distance, dinner probably outside the fortress) The city is located in the middle of the desert in the oasis of Choresm and was from the end of the 16th century to 1920
Capital of the eponymous khanate. The monuments of Ichan-Kala, the central and oldest
Part of the city, they form a closed complex and resemble an open-air museum of Islamic architecture. After detailed sightseeing (Kunja-Ark Fortress, Pachlavan-Machmud complex,
Minaret Kala-Minor, minaret Islam-Khodja u.v.a.), you can have your dinner with folklore concert in
a transformed into a restaurant medresse.

Day 8 Khiva - Ayaz Kala (about 150 km / 2,15 hrs)

Day 9 Ayaz Kala - Urgench - Tashkent

Ayaz-Kala - Day 9 Ayaz Kala - Urgench - Tashkent
(Chiwa Ayas Kala - Urgentsch approx. 80 km / approx. 1.5 hours)
The morning is at your disposal today. Then drive to Urgench and fly to Tashkent. Joint farewell dinner.

Day 10 Return flight to Germany or extension Fergana

Tashkent TV tower - Day 10 Return flight to Germany or extension Fergana
After breakfast transfer to the airport and return flight to Germany.

10 Tashkent - Kokand - Rishtan - Fergana
Tashkent - Kokand approx. 240 km./ approx. 4.5 hours over the mountain pass, Kokand - Rischtan approx. 42 km./ approx. 30 min, Rischtan - Fergana approx. 55 km./ca. 1 H.)

Guests who have booked our extension drive in the morning towards Fergana, to Kokand.
Kokand is located in the largest and most densely populated oasis of Central Asia, approximately 240 kilometers southeast of Tashkent - in the Fergana Valley. Mountain landscapes and numerous fruit and vegetable plantations, rows of mulberry trees and wide cotton fields await you in the Fergana Valley. In the first half of the 19th century Kokand was an important trading center and with more than 300 mosques the religious center of the Fergana Valley. Today it is the main traffic hub of this region. You will visit the Khudajar Khan Palace of Kokand. The building is one of the last major buildings of Islamic architecture in Central Asia in the 19th century. Further afield, you will reach the largest mosque in Kokand, the Juma Mosque. Then continue to Rischtan. Rischtan was and has been famous for several centuries for its pottery. You will visit one of the most famous ceramic workshops of a hereditary master. Characteristic of the handicraft produced in Rischtan is the tableware with geometric arabesques, plant motifs and depictions of animals and humans. In the workshop you will learn from the Usto (master) details about the manufacture and decoration of ceramics. Fergana.
(2 nights in Fergana at Hotel Asia Fergana)

Day 11 Fergana - Margilan - Tashkent

Yodgorlik Silk Factory - Day 11 Fergana - Margilan - Tashkent
(Fergana - Margilan approx. 20 km./ approx. 30 min., Margilan - Taschkent over the mountain pass approx. 325 km./ approx. 6 hrs)
After breakfast, visit a private farm. Some varieties of fruit trees start to bloom at the end of February. The staff will also show you a poultry factory. Continue to Margilan. Legend has it that the city was founded by Alexander the Great. The city was famous mainly for the silk fabrics made here, which were delivered to Egypt and Greece. Even today Margilan is known as the silk capital of Uzbekistan. How the material is obtained, you will learn during the visit of a factory in Margilan.

Day 12 Tashkent - return flight

Tashkentland - Day 12 Tashkent - return flight
After breakfast, drive to the airport and return flight. End of the journey. (1 night in the hotel “City Palace”)

• Dinner
• Breakfast

• Single supplement in euros: 75 euros. tips. International flight ticket. Alcoholic drinks.