Stay : Birding tour in Uzbekistan
If the decades of Soviet occupation were marked by a real ecocide and the disappearance of many species, the surface occupied by the desert, spared by human occupation, has become again since independence a space of predilection for the observation of birds. Endemic species, foreigners or migratory birds: a tour not to be undertaken without binoculars!
Summary of the stay
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7 days
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Where to stay - Tachkent ?
The map of your stay - Ouzbékistan
Detail of the stay : Birding tour in Uzbekistan - 7 days
Day 1: Arrival in Tashkent
Steps: Tachkent
Arrival in the morning in Tashkent and transfer to Tchimgan. Walk, relax and rest at the end of the day.
Day 2: The birds of the hills
Steps: Tachkent
80 km east of Tashkent, Tchimgan is a pretty high altitude village with a climate very popular with the Uzbeks. This is where you can start your bird watching, in the hills surrounding the city. Tchimgan is home to many colonies of torch-pot nuthatches, warblers and Indian orioles. Return to Tashkent at the end of the day.
Day 3: Towards the capital timurid
Steps: Samarkand
Departure for Samarkand in the morning. Judgments on the road for bird watching. The desert limits are home to many species whose number and presence will depend on the period of the year to which you are doing this circuit. Visit Samarkand and visit the main monuments of Samarkand.
Day 4: The vultures of Samarkand
Steps: Samarkand
Early departure for Takhta Karacha Pass. Bird watching, with a little luck of griffon and monk vultures. Return to Samarkand and visit the necropolis of Shah i Zinda in the evening.
Day 5: Exit at dawn
Early departure for Zeravshan National Park, a few kilometres from Samarkand. Peachpie and White-rumped Shama are active mainly at dawn. You will therefore have returned to Samarkand in the early morning to finish your visit to the timid capital. In the afternoon, drive to Bukhara.
Day 6: The birds of the desert
Departure very early in the Kyzyl Kum desert. Near an area irrigated by the Amou Daria, you can get to know the multicoloured birds that inhabit the red sand desert. The opportunity to picnic in the dunes, much more alive than one might imagine: turtles, lizards and of course camels live everywhere in the shade of the Saxauls.
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