Hand-picked journeys along the Silk Road — expert local guides, real departures and the kind of moments that stay with you.
In the heart of the Silk Road — Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and beyond. Local experts, real departures, honest prices.
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8 tours
Distinctive routes, remarkable stays and carefully selected experiences for travellers who want something exceptional
Tashkent · Samarkand · Shakhrisabz
Twelve days is what it takes to do the four great cities properly and still have room for the country in between them.
Tashkent · Samarkand · Shakhrisabz
Seven days exploring the two greatest jewels of the Silk Road. Samarkand was the capital of Timur's empire and a centre of astronomy under his grandson Ulugbek; Bukhara kept its whole medieval core intact, a working town of trade domes, madrasahs and clay lanes rather than a set of isolated monuments.
Tashkent · Samarkand · Shakhrisabz
Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara in eight unforgettable days, taken at a pace that leaves room to sit in a courtyard rather than march past it. You begin in the capital, ride the high-speed Afrosiyob train down to Samarkand, and finish among the trade domes and mud-brick lanes of Bukhara.
Tashkent · Samarkand · Shakhrisabz
Glide between the Silk Road cities aboard the Afrosiyob high-speed train. What used to be a long day on the road is now a comfortable morning in a reclining seat: Tashkent to Samarkand in two hours and ten minutes, Samarkand to Bukhara in about an hour and a half.
Tashkent · Samarkand · Nurata
Between the monuments of Samarkand and the emptiness of the Kyzylkum lies a different Uzbekistan.
Tashkent · Nukus · Muynak
Karakalpakstan is Uzbekistan's wildest corner, and these seven days take you into the heart of it. You fly west from Tashkent to Nukus, where the Savitsky Museum holds the world's second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art, carried out to the edge of the empire and hidden from Soviet censors.
Tashkent · Kokand · Rishtan
Meet master craftsmen still practising centuries-old silk and ceramic traditions.
Tashkent · Urgench · Khiva
This is the classic Silk Road route done at a proper pace. You start in Tashkent, fly west to Khiva and work your way back east through Bukhara to Samarkand, so the cities grow steadily grander as the journey goes on and you finish under the tiled portals of the Registan rather than rushing past them on day two.
Tashkent · Khiva · Bukhara
Eleven days through turquoise-domed cities, following the world's oldest trade route from the capital out to the Khorezm oasis and back through Bukhara to Samarkand. Mosques, madrasahs and bazaars, with enough time in each city to return to a favourite courtyard at a different hour of the day.
Tashkent · Termez · Boysun
Surkhandarya is the deep south of Uzbekistan, a province of cotton fields, Bactrian ruins and mountain villages tucked under the Hissar range. Its heartland is Boysun, whose songs, embroidery and spring rituals were among the first traditions anywhere recognised by UNESCO as a masterpiece of intangible heritage.
Tashkent · Samarkand · Bukhara
Ten days chasing light — dawn over Khiva's minarets, golden hour at the Registan and portrait walks through living bazaars.
Tashkent · Nukus · Khiva
The full sweep of Uzbekistan in twelve days, taken from west to east so that the country opens up gradually: the capital first, then the Savitsky collection in Nukus, the clay fortresses of ancient Khorezm, the walled town of Khiva, the trade domes of Bukhara, a yurt camp in the Kyzylkum and finally the great Timurid…
Tashkent · Samarkand · Bukhara
Synagogues of Bukhara, the old Jewish quarter, Samarkand's heritage and stories of one of Central Asia's oldest communities.
Tashkent · Bukhara · Gijduvan
In the footsteps of the great Sufi masters — the Naqshbandi shrine near Bukhara, Samarkand's holy places and living traditions of wisdom.
Tashkent · Termez · Samarkand
Twelve days through pre-Islamic Central Asia, following the archaeology of three faiths across the country.
Tashkent · Samarkand · Gijduvan
Ten delicious days: plov masters in Tashkent, Samarkand bread bakers, Bukhara's tea houses, home dinners and bazaar tastings everywhere. You do not just eat your way across Uzbekistan on this tour, you cook — pilaf over a wood fire, shurpa in a Bukhara kitchen, the egg-filled tukhumbarak that only Khiva makes.
Tashkent · Charvak · Chimgan
Fifteen days off the asphalt — Kyzylkum desert crossings, Aral shores, mountain passes and the Silk Road cities in between. The vehicles are what make the route possible: the Ustyurt Plateau, the dried seabed north of Moynaq and the tracks into the Nurata Mountains are simply not reachable by coach.
Tashkent · Bukhara · Samarkand
Between December and February the Silk Road cities empty out. You can stand almost alone in Registan Square in the morning, the tilework is at its best under a low sun, and the tea houses of Bukhara fill up with local people rather than tour groups.
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