Desert caravans
2025
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora, Adventure / Sports & Leisure.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne, Hiver.
Petit Futé
The map of your stay "Desert caravans"
Detail of the stay : Desert caravans
How to get there - Boukhara
Towards Kyzyl Koum
Steps: Boukhara
Arrival in Tashkent in the morning and internal flight to Bukhara. Visit the main monuments of this desert oasis, an old stopover for caravans on the Silk Road: the Poy Kalon complex, the market domes and their artisans, the Liab-i-Khaouz basin and its madrasas.
Places of interest : ENSEMBLE POY KALON
Around Alexander's fortress
Steps: Lac Aydar Kul
Transfer to Nourata, the city that marks the boundary between the two worlds, nomadic and sedentary, and visit the sacred spring, the petroglyphs and the city of Alexander. Transfer to a yurt village on the shores of Lake Aydar Kul.
First day of camel ride
Contact with camels in the morning, camel riding in the dunes of Kyzyl Kum in the afternoon and meeting with nomads to taste kumiss, the fermented mare's (or camel's) milk so prized by Western stomachs! Night under the stars.
Second day of méharée
Steps: Lac Aydar Kul
Hike to the shores of Lake Aydar Kul. Walk around the lake, rest and return to the yurt camp in the evening.
Discover the Timurid capital
Steps: Samarkand
Return to Samarkand, on the eastern edge of the Kyzyl Kum, and visit the main monuments: the Gour Emir mausoleum, the Registan, the Bibi Khanum mosque and, at the end of the day to take advantage of the best light, the Shah i Zinda necropolis.
Uzbekistan's modern capital
Steps: Tachkent
Return to Tashkent. Afternoon visit to the Koukeldach madrasa, the Hazrat Imam ensemble and the Museum of the Peoples of Uzbekistan. Evening at the Navoi Opera House.
Places of interest : MADRASA KOUKELDACH MUSÉE NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE
