Stay : Uzbek immersion


hIGHLIGHTS OF THE TOUR :

- Khiva and Bukhara sites classified by Unesco, Samarkand the Great.

-High level French speaking guide.

- Visits to the villages Chapdara, Eshonqishloq

-Walks in the Zerafshan mountains

Day 1 - Paris - Urgench - Khiva

Day 2 - Khiva

Day 3: Khiva - Bukhara

Day 4-5. Bukhara

Day 6. Bukhara- Shakhrisabz

Day 7. Shakhrisabz- Urgut- Chapdara village

Day 8. Chapdara village- Eshon Qishloq- Samarkand

Day 9 - Samarkand

Day 10. Samarkand

Day 11 Samarkand- Paris - Flight


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Detail of the stay : Uzbek immersion - 11 days

  • Khiva
  • Ourgout
  • Ourgout

Day 1: Paris- Urgench

Departure from Paris in the evening on a regular flight. Night flight.

Day 2: Journee de visite a Khiva

Steps: Khiva

Khiva - the most isolated oasis of the ancient Silk Road, today intact. Visit of the city which sheltered under its pink clay ramparts famous scholars, such as Al Khawarizmi, the father of logarithms or Avicenna, the great physician and philosopher who was born more than a thousand years ago not far from Bukhara and whose influence remained preponderant in the West until the end of the 17th century.

Free meals in town.

Night at the hotel.


Day 3: Trajet Khiva - Boukhara

Breakfast.

Transfer to Khiva railway station. Departure by train to Bukhara.

We leave Khwarezm province and follow the Amu Darya river, a real blue snake in the Kyzylkum desert, for the first 80 kilometers; then we cross the arid steppe to arrive in Bukhara in the early afternoon.


Day 4: Discovery of the Holy City

Very complete visit of the city, one of the oldest cities of Central Asia. Its long architectural evolution, samanide, seldjoukide, timouride then cheybanide left us this ocean of turquoise domes, tapered minarets, medersas, mausoleums and mosques with imposing ceramic facades declining all the blue tones.

Free meals in the restaurants of the city.

Night at the hotel.


Day 5: Bukhara and its surroundings

Breakfast.

Excursion to the extromuros

Visit to the Davron Usto craft center

Folklore concert.

Night at the hotel


Day 6: Ville de Tamerlan

Breakfast.

Departure to Shakhrissabz by the southern road through the steppe. Shakr-i-Sabz, the ancient Sogdian Kech at the foot of the Zeravshan Mountains, was the birthplace of Tamerlane in 1336, Timur the "lame", and was one of the most important cultural centers of the East in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Overnight at the hotel.


Day 7: Walks in the mountains

Steps: Ourgout

Breakfast. Drive by individual cars to Urgut through the Takhtakaracha pass.

This passage will allow us to see the landscapes of Kitab plain and in good weather the snowy peaks of Ghissar mountain range.

Arrival in Urgut. Visit of the market and overnight stay in a local house.


Day 8: Walks in the villages

Steps: Ourgout

Day of walking - hiking of average level. This hike has for frame the Zerafshan Mountains with view on its peaks culminating at 2400 m, and the crossing of the typical villages.

Day 9: Ancient city

Samarkand, a magical name and an almost mythical city that fascinates. Contemporary of Babylon and Thebes, the "Marakanda" of the Greeks is one of the oldest cities in the world with more than 4000 years of history.

Day 10: Ville de legends

For continuation of the visits in Samarkand in the morning, discovery of the Afrossiab Museum whose masterpiece is a fresco of the seventh century, and discovery of the market Siab bazaar.

Day 11: Vol Samarkand- Paris

Transfer to Samarkand airport and flight to Paris on Turkish Airlines

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