Travel and transport agencies Route de la soie

The agency offers a variety of services such as boat trips, romantic weekends, honeymoons, sea trips, as well as trips to Northern Europe, Southern Europe, North America and South America.

Culture du Monde is the French-speaking reference in terms of cultural, nature and immersive tours. Based in Tashkent, with branches all over the country, built in the early days of Uzbekistan's tourism and constantly enriched since then, the agency offers classic tours as well as a wide range, constantly renewed and improved, of programs or stages off the beaten track. Reliable, available and attentive to your projects, the entire field team will tailor a trip to suit your desires and requirements.

Scheherazade Voyages is an expert in organizing tailor-made trekking and hiking tours in Uzbekistan and Central Asian countries. The small team of tour guides is made up of seasoned professionals and corresponds to the values of the agency. An agency that is primarily aimed at people who want to get off the beaten track and discover the little-known facets of the country: its inhabitants, its villages, its crafts... Scheherazade is of course also able to organize cultural trips for larger groups.

With over 15 years of experience, KT designs exclusive and experiential trips. Having grown up in villages and rural communities, the team has an intimate knowledge of pastoral and nomadic culture. It is attached to the traditional Kyrgyz values that it wishes to transmit and bring to life to travellers. Cultural tours around the country's great lakes, outdoor activities for all levels, meeting and living with nomads in summer pastures, learning about their culture (history, singing) and their way of life (yurt building, eagle hunting).

An agency run by a young and dynamic Franco-Russian team whose quality of the services and their quality/price ratio are very popular among our readers. Organised, free or totally à la carte stays, Russie Autrement adapts to all needs with a concern for offering a creative and personalised approach favouring a discovery of the contemporary Russia's interior.

Paul Bedros, the agency's owner, is a French-speaking Copt with over 25 years' experience in tourism, working with leading French agencies. His team of specialists is ready to listen to your needs. Whether it's a tailor-made cruise with friends or family, or a trip based on a theme such as yoga, initiation, etc., L'Égypte Autrement will adapt to offer you the trip of your dreams. For a cruise on the Nile, the agency has 4 boats of different sizes. Experienced French-speaking Egyptologist guides. We recommend...

By involving nomadic families and locals, Eco Voyage contributes since 2011 to the protection of the environment of Mongolia and the development of a responsible economy in the tourism sector. A part of the price of your trip is donated directly to programs for the preservation of local ecosystems. Chuka designs programs that are particularly adapted to the expectations of its clients, on a variety of themes and budgets. The site is a gold mine. An engaging and smart agency.

With a long and rich experience in the field of tourism, Farshid offers to guide you in Esfahan as well as throughout Iran. French-speaking and English-speaking, good comrade, smiling and available, he is also not lacking in seriousness when it comes to detailing the monuments and their history. Armed with his maps, he animates and makes the old stones vibrate to make them more lively throughout exciting visits that will allow you to discover all the little secrets of Esfahan of the most beautiful architectural treasures of Esfahan.

Farshid also has vehicles, including a 4x4, to take you wherever you want across the country and can help you organize everything to make the most of your time.

Finally, it should be noted that Farshid has been a high mountain guide for several years and that if you are tempted by a little sport or trekking in more remote parts of the country, you will not have to ask him twice: he has travelled the trails of all the mountains in the country, including the border areas and can guide you in complete safety.

This Kyrgyz-French agency has recently opened an agency in France (Nomadays) to make life easier for its clients. It offers a wide variety of itineraries, with the possibility of creating your own tailor-made trip but also small group packages. Culture and discovery of the country with your family, trekking on foot or on horseback, mountaineering, ski touring: you will find stays more or less sporty, but always rich in adventure. An excellent option to discover the Celestial Mountains and their warm people, while taking advantage of a real local expertise.

Built from 1978 to 1983, this railway station replaced that of the Brotteaux, especially for the liaison with Paris in TGV. It is "connected" to all the means of public transport (bus, metro, tram and the Rhône Express in direct connection with the airport of Saint-Exupéry). It is the first station in Lyon in terms of travellers and allows many connections. With TER, it links Grenoble, Saint-Etienne, Annecy, Chambéry, Clermont-Ferrand and Switzerland. Its TGV lines offer the proximity of large destinations such as Paris, Marseille or Lille. They also allow to directly reach Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport. Finally, the TGV Rhine-Rhône places Strasbourg and Germany within a few hours of journey. To follow: The station of the Part Dieu, designed to receive 30 000 passengers a day, while it welcomes more than 120 000 currently, is in the process of complete redevelopment to become 2021 to the image of the neighborhood surrounding it (high towers and work of Garibaldi), modern and more functional.

Founded by Fatma, a dynamic and passionate French-speaking Egyptologist guide, Magic Egypte is renowned for organizing high quality tailor-made trips that fit everyone's budget. With 25 years' experience behind her, Fatma will listen to your needs and design the trip of your dreams. Magic Egypte offers visits to the Egyptian highlights of Cairo, Luxor, Aswan and Nile cruises, as well as charming off-the-beaten-track spots such as Alexandria, Rosetta and the Western Oases like Siwa and the White Desert.

The first phase of one of the windows of Marseille, the place of convergence of the Marseille people, took place just before the event Marseille Provence 2013. The semi-piétonisation of this highly mineral natural space pays homage to its original aspect of 26 centuries ago, when Protis reaches its vaisseau vessel in the calanque of the Lacydon. The Old Port has been completely redesigned, redesigned, and the beautiful share has been made to pedestrians that significantly reduce the previously dedicated place for motorists. The second stage, with the end of the paving of the Island of Neuve (delivery before summer 2016) and the Port Pier (in 2017), as well as the creation of a parks of the Catalans and Fort Saint-Nicolas parks, and that of a public garden in the Anse du Pharo, started in September 2015 and will end in 2020. If the barriers to the Old Port have disappeared, further improvements have been made to the use of recreational boaters.

The agency designs its own tours throughout Uzbekistan and Central Asia. Marakanda has a strong offering of thematic tours, including botanical tours, birding trips and agrotourism. Another area of expertise is ecotourism and active travel, ranging from easy hiking to long-distance trekking, from bicycle and horseback riding to motorcycle, 4x4 and Aral Sea tours.

Marakanda wishes to promote sustainable tourism and solidarity by staying in authentic villages.

This specialist based in Siberia south of Lake Baikal, offers you tailor-made stays with French or English-speaking guides. We prepare your arrival, your transfers, book your accommodations, organize your expeditions: you have nothing else to do but enjoy (all-inclusive packages or free programs). Since 2002, this organization, led by a team of Russians in love with Siberia, respectful of nature and committed to a sustainable development approach, has been leading its boat with passion. Around Lake Baikal, winter and summer.

La Méridionale is the historic company for crossings between Marseille and Corsica. On board, you'll enjoy a warm welcome and top-quality services. You'll enjoy a comfortable cabin and a tasty Corsican-inspired meal concocted by the chef and his brigade. You'll travel in serenity and relaxation. Crossings are made at night on board human-sized ships, and 90% of customers say they are satisfied with their crossings on board (survey of 2,494 customers in 2022).

Founded by Isrofil Usanov in 2003, Zamin Travel agency is a reference actor of Uzbek tourism. Lover of his country, history and French language, but also a high mountain guide, Isrofil designs programs and regularly creates new tours on exclusive itineraries. The Zamin agency has become known as a specialist in hiking and trekking in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. We also offer a wide variety of cultural trips, tailor-made for small groups, with a high quality of accompaniment.

This private company manages certain maritime links in the city of Istanbul. The deniz otobüsü - fast boats - mainly cover long distances. They also allow you to go to the Princes' Islands and across the Marmara Sea: to Bursa, Bandırma or Yalova. In any case, get the leaflet indicating the lines and timetables, available at all ticket offices. The most important port is Yenikapi.

When you arrive by train in Santa Lucia, you will suddenly experience an absolute sensation of disorientation. Venice simply jumps out at you! The view of the Grand Canal is superb. Vaporetti 1, 2, 4.1 and 5.1 dock 20 meters away to take you to Rialto or Piazza San Marco, among others. The Santa Croce and Cannareggio neighborhoods are available to you if you prefer to walk. But take your time if you need to. There are many restaurants and stores, as well as tourist information desks in the main hall.