“Dolores Travel Services” offer you many kinds of tours thanks to which you will visit interesting cities and discover the history, traditions and feel true luxury of East in magnificent hotels which cooperate with our company. We present you the tours along Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, interesting historical monuments and sightseeing of ancient cities – Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and Fergana valley.
Destination: Turkmenistan Route: Bukhara, Mary, Gonur, Merv, Ashgabat, Dashuz, Kunya - Urgench .. Duration: 14 days
Day 1 Tashkent Arrive to Tashkent's airport at XXX from XXX, meet and greet service (DOLORES TOUR SIGN for meeting), transfer to hotel. Short tour in Tashkent: Museum of Applied Arts, Amir Temur square, local "Broadway" - a walking street with artists, cheap souvenirs and eating places, city fountains and modern monuments. Overnight at the hotel
Day 2 Tashkent - Samarkand Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Samarkand, settlement at the hotel. After short rest evening tour in Samarkand: Registan square - Medreseh Ulughbek (15th c.), Medreseh Shir-Dor (17th c.), Medreseh Tilla-Kori (17th c.). Overnight at the hotel.
Day 3 Samarkand Breakfast at the hotel. Full day city tour in Samarkand: Ulughbek Observatory (15th c.). Excavations and museum of the ancient city of Afrosiab, Architectural complex Shakhi-Zindeh (11-15th c.), Mausoleum Guri Emir - Tamerlane's Tomb (14-15th c.), Bibi-Khonum Mosque. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 4 Samarkand - Shakhrisabz - Bukhara Breakfast at the hotel. Drive to Shakhrisabz (2 hrs). City tour: ruins of Ak-Saray Palace (14-15th c.), Dor-ut Saodat complex (Khazratiy Imam Mosque (14th c.), Jahongir mausoleum (14th c.), Dor-ut Tillavat complex: Gumbazi-Seiidan, Kok Gumbaz Mosque (15th c.) Continue to Bukhara (3 hrs). Hotel accommodation. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 5 Bukhara Breakfast at the hotel City tour in Bukhara: Citadel Ark (4th c. BC), Samanides Mausoleum (9-10th c.), Chashma Ayub(14th c.), Bolo-Hauz Mosque (beginning of the 20th c.), Coumpol bazaar, Medreseh Nodir-Divan-Beghi, complex Lyabi-Khauz (14-17th c.), Minaret Kalon (12th c.), Kalyan Mosque (12th c.), Medreseh Miri Arab (16th c.). Overnight at the hotel.
Day 6 Bukhara Breakfast at the hotel. A trip out of the city for a visit to Bahouddin Nakshbandi mausoleum (16-19th c.), to the sepulchers of his mother and his preceptor (14th c.), mausoleum Chor-Bakr (10th c.), visit to summer residence Sitorai-Mokhi-Hossa (19th c.). Overnight at the hotel.
Day 7 Bukhara - Mary Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Uzbekistan – Turkmenistan Check point “Farap”, border formalities, crossing the neutral territory (800m), meeting with Turkmen partners, continue the drive to Mary (4 hours), settlement at the hotel. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 8 Mary - Gonur - Mary Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Gonur site (Bronze age site –Capital of Margush or Margiana country, dated to III-I millennia B.C, deep in the desert & 100 km from Mary).Return in Mary & Visit Mary History Museum. Overnight at the hotel. Day 9 Mary - Merv - Ashgabat Breakfast at the hotel. Drive to Merv Historical Park & discover its cities Alexandria, Antiochia, Sultan Kala (Sultan Sanjar mausoleum, Mukhammed ibn Zayd mausoleum, Remains of 6th-7th cent castles “Keshk”). Drive to Ashgabat, 350 km. On the route discover Abiverd site remains. Arrive to Ashgabat, settlement and overnight at the hotel.
Day 10 Ashgabat Breakfast at the hotel. Sight seeing in Ashgabat with visiting the National Museum of History & Ethnography of Turkmenistan & archeological site “Old Nisa”- Parthian period & Spiritual Mosque of Turkmenbashy. Overnight at the Hotel Day 11 Ashgabat - Dashuz - Kunya - Urgench - Khiva Breakfast at the hotel. First flight to Dashouz. Continue drive to Kunya Urghench. Visit Kunya Urghench historical site (Mausoleums of Turebek-Khanym, Sultan Tekesh, Sultan Il Arslan, Najmad-din-Kubra, Sultan Ali. Discover the Kutlug Timur minaret & Kyrk Molla. Return drive to Dashouz. Transfer to Uzbekistan – Turkmenistan check point “Shavat”, border formalities, crossing the neutral territory (900m), meeting with Uzbek driver (DOLORES TOUR sign), continue the drive to Khiva. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 12 Khiva Breakfast at the hotel. City tour around Ichan-Kala architectural complex (12-19th c.), the Residence of the last Khan including Ismail Khodja Mausoleum, Mohammed Amin Khan madrassah, Kunya-Ark Castle (16-17th c.), Kalta Minor tower, Tash-Hovli Palace (19th c.), Pahlavan Mahmud Mausoleum (14-18th cc.), Juma Mosque (10th c.)Overnight at the hotel. Day 13 Khiva - Tashkent Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport to Urghench, flight to Tashkent (according to time table), flight, and arrival to Tashkent, settlement at the hotel. City tour around Tashkent: Independence Square, Navoi Theater square, Barak-Khan Madrasah (16th c.), The Kaffal-Shashi mausoleum (15th c.), Kukeldash Madrasah (16th c.), the Djuma mosque (9th c.), Tashkent National Arts Centre. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 14 Tashkent Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport, flight for the next destination.
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Program includes: - Accommodation in 3-4* hotels throughout Uzbekistan - Air tickets Urgench – Tashkent - Breakfast - Services for private cars with driver per program - Local English - speaking guides for all sightseeing and excursions - Entrance fees to sites listed - All airport transfers - Visa support
Not included: - International air tickets - Tips and gratuities - Porterage - Any personal expenses - Any services not included in the above itinerary
* Important – no early arrivals and late departures are included. Additional supplements could be offered depending to the international flight tourist used.
