Uzbekistan tours

Shahrisabz is the native city of Tamerlane. It is a small city, wallowing in verdure, is situated in the mountainous foot of Gissarskiy range, 130 km to the South from Samarkand. If you decide to make one-day TRIP on Sunday to Shahrisabz, stop in Jam-bazaar is possible. You will not see the modern trade rows. Everything is here as it was centuries ago. Here you can buy rugs with decoration, particular to this region. You will visit architectural monuments such as Ak-Sarai, Kok-Kumbaz mosque, Torut Tilovat Mausoleum, Dorus Siadat necropolis, associated with Amir Timur. You will find out many interesting facts about this cruel conquer. The road back to Samarkand is over Tahta-Karacha pass. Panorama revealing from this pass will remain forever in your memory. Lunch in a cafe "Thousands chinaras" (platan).

Shahimardan village is situated 80 km to the South from Fergana in mountainous foot of Alaiskiy range at the bank of Shahimardan river. Plenty of picturesque villages and apple gardens are on the road from Fergana to Shahimardan.

Three kilometers up the road takes you to Kurban-kul lake, which is considered to be a holy among Moslem people. You will be satisfied with small walks round the lake as well as panorama of the mountains.

Our coach tour will immerse you deeply in the history around some of the most ancient towns of the world - Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva. World famous monuments of ancient architecture remember Alexander the Great and Chengiskhan.

Once there was the center of vast medieval Tamerlan’s Empire here.

Tourists will remember tall, thin minarets, grandiose madrassahs and mosques, palaces and mausoleums decorated with incredible ceramic ornaments, noisy and colorful oriental bazaars, interesting legends, warm hospitality and ancient traditions of local inhabitants for a long time.

2. The Buddhist monastery complex of Kara Tepa is unique in Central Asia. Not only is it the only rock-hewn Buddhist cave complex in the region, and thus the main connecting thread between the Afghan sites of Haibak and Bamian and the sites of the far side of the Oxus, it is also the only monastery to lie behind an electrified fence in international no-man’s-land.

3. The Fayaz Tepa site, four km north of Termez consists of the archaeological remains of a two-millenniums old Buddhist temple and monastery complex, whose impact is perhaps more intellectual than visual. The large central courtyard, the heart of the Buddhist temple, is flanked to the west by the main living quarters of the monastery and to the east by the main refectory. The brick stupa to the north of the temple dates from the first century BC and is only inner section of a much larger construction that rose from the cross shaped foundations. Clay and gypsum statues of Buddha, a series of murals depicting various adorants in Kushan dress and fragment of pottery containing Brahmi, Punjabi, Kharoshti and Bactrian scripts have all been found on the site, underlining its essentially Eastern orientation. Remain have also been discovered of a two-kilometer aqueduct that supplied the monastery with water from the Amu Daria. The monastery was looted in the 5th century by Sassanid troops and later used as a burial ground and retreat for Sufic mystics of a rather different religious persuasion.

4. The trio of Buddhist archaeological memorabilia is completed by the sixteen meter high Zurmala Tower, situated five kilometers southeast of Termez and visible from main road. This sixteen-meter-high brick tower is the remnant of the largest Buddhist stupa in the area and is possibly the oldest construction still standing in Uzbekistan. Back to the third and fourth centuries AD, at the height of Buddhist influence, the base of the stupa would have been covered with white lime-stone slabs below red brick decoration and would have housed a collection of sacred Buddhist relics. Today, this former religious magnet lies lost in a deserted cotton field, torn by a huge, heart-rending crack.

5. Kampyr Tepa – the ruins of the fortress are situated 38 км from Termez on the right shore of the Amy Daria. The ruins of the citadel and unfortified settlement around it date from 3-2 century AD. Kampyr Tepa is one of the most studied site in Northern Bactria of Kushan period. Different finds, among them 4 treasures, are kept in the museum of Khamza Institute of Art in Tashkent.