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The East is a delicate place. Delicate pattern, delicate silk, fine arts, graceful dances… There are a few people indifferent to the beautiful. That’s why the East and Central Asia have being attracted attention of commanders, conquerors and common travelers from the time immemorial. At different times they were attracted by different things: warm climate, varied and very beautiful nature, then the Great Silk Road, virgin lands… Fortunately, the time of invaders and commanders is over, but the great interest of travelers still has held true. They still want to look at grandiose heritage of the Middle Ages with their own eyes, to touch the original life of uzbek people, to be impressed by beautiful nature. These eternal values always remain the same: the beautiful nature is like it was 100 years ago, and the native will carefully offer you a cap of hot tea like his great-grandfather did. Uzbekistan is independent country during almost 15 years. During these years many has been changed for the better. Uzbekistan genially opened its doors. And now we can see a spurt in development of economy and of tourism too. No wonder! This country seems to be especially created for receiving guests. Ancient traditions of hospitality now are reflected in high-quality service, that in conjunction with nature and culture variety wouldn’t let you be indifferent to this young but at the same time ancient country. You will see different landscapes in several days (mountains, steppes and deserts) here, and interchange of the Middle Ages and the present will not let you be bored. This unforgettable tour will on-the-fly acquaint you with all the most interesting places of Central Asia. During short period of your vacation you would like to look as much as possible and to estimate at your true worth the great monuments of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, to take pleasure in nature and its gifts. According these we offer you the following plan of Your Tour:

«Great Silk Road»

Countries: China - Kyrgyzstan - Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan - Iran
Sightseeing tour in China and Central Asia
Tour duration: 35 days
Best time for the tour: all-year

For thousands of years the Great Silk Road was connecting China to the Mediterranean and facilitating cultural exchange between two major civilizations of that time - the Eastern and the Western one. For thousands of years numerous caravans with expensive silk, exotic spicery and gems were moving along this famous trading route, immense caravanserais, majestic mosques and madrassas were rising along the road. And now you have got a possibility to follow that same ancient route yourself!

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«To the heart of Tamerlane`s empire»

Countries: Uzbekistan
Sightseeing tour in Uzbekistan
Tour duration: 8 days
Best time for the tour: April - October

This great cultural and informative tour will introduce you to the history and culture of Uzbekistan and its world-known ancient memorials of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva. These cities still keep memories of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, numerous trade caravans of the Great Silk Road and certainly the great and mysterious historical figure of legendary Tamerlane…

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«Casket of oriental adventures»

Country: Uzbekistan
Sightseeing tour in Uzbekistan
Tour duration: 15 days
Best time for the tour: all-year

The Orient is a delicate thing: fine pattern, delicate silk, fine arts, graceful and charming dances… The tour across Uzbekistan called “The Casket of Oriental Adventures” will guide you through the most interesting places of this wonderful country. We understand that you wish to manage seeing the most impressive, eye-catching, important and unique things during your short vacation in order to be able to estimate true worth of magnificent monuments of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, in order to be able to enjoy surrounding nature and its generous gifts!

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«Hospitable Asia»

Countries: Uzbekistan - Kyrgyzstan - Kazakhstan
Sightseeing tour in Central Asia
Tour Duration: 16 days
Best time for tour: April - October

Full of contrast and unforgettable tour covers the territory of three central Asian republics: Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Majestic minarets, blue domes of mausoleums, ancient madrasahs will tell You about the past power and wealth of Uzbekistan’s sovereigns. You hardly will notice the smooth transition from urban civilization to the splendid mountain landscapes, pristine nature of Kyrgyzstan, its “pearl” - Issyk Kul Lake. And the unforgettable sunny city of Almaty will let You deeply feel the mysterious beauty of Kazakhstan!

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«Sogdiana - the Pearl of the East»

Countries: Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan
Sightseeing tour in Central Asia
Tour duration: 15 days
Best time for the tour: all-year

This tour will guide you across two Central Asian republics - Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan - where two powerful states - Bactria and Sogdiana - were located in ancestry. The ruins of ancient fortresses of Merv, Khwarezm, Penjikent and Afrosiab are preserved till nowadays and remind of the bygone might of perished empires. Well, let’s meet the ancestry! The tour “Sogdiana - the Pearl of the East” will guide you across two Central Asian republics - Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan - where two powerful states - Bactria and Sogdiana - were located in ancestry.

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«Along the ancient caravan roads»

Countries: Uzbekistan - Kyrgyzstan - China
Sightseeing tour in China and Central Asia
Tour duration: 15 days
Best time for tour: April - October

This exciting and informative tour runs through Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and the western China. It takes you to most interesting places of the region: the ancient cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Osh; the picturesque Fergana Valley and Alai Valley; the sultry Kyzylkum Desert and the snowy peaks of the Pamirs… The area is full of contrasts, offering a wide variety of everything a tourist wants to explore. The tour runs along the ancient Silk Roads, and over the high-altitude mountain pass Irkeshtam on Kyrgyz-Chinese border, with a stop at the yurt camp under Lenin Peak - one of the most outstanding giant mountains of the Pamirs, which is over 7,000 m in height. At the end of the tour you have a chance to visit the famous Kashgar Sunday Bazaar, which has functioned for over 1000 years.

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«Pamir Highway»

Countries: Uzbekistan - Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan
Sightseeing tour to the Pamir Highway
Tour duration: 18 days
Best time for tour: May - September

This unique tour along the Pamir Highway will allow you to explore one of the wildest places on earth. There are only a few auto roads running at an altitude of over 4000 meters in the world (in Tibet and the Andes, for example). The Pamir Highway is among them. As you get there, you will see breathtaking mountain landscapes of sky-piercing peaks, picturesque gorges, seething streams and tranquil lakes… You will meet the local Pamiri people with their centuries-old culture still being alive.

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«Getting acquainted with Ancient Capitals of Persia and Sogdiana»

Countries: Uzbekistan - Iran
Sightseeing tour in Central Asia and Iran
Tour duration: 17 days
Best time for tour: April - October

Ancient Persia and Sogdiana are two great powers of the past centuries but memory of them is still kept in people’s hearts. The offered tour gives you the unique possibility to step on the territory of these powerful states, the place where at the present days two independent countries- Iran and Uzbekistan are situated. Here you will be told in short the stories that had been known to you since long time ago, and they will also tell you a lot of mysterious and concealed things. With quite different feelings you will look at the pearls of East.

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«Visiting the Oriental Tale»

Countries: Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan - Tajikistan - Kyrgyzstan - Kazakhstan
Sightseeing tour in Central Asia
Tour duration: 33 days
Best time to travel: May - September

You most probably remember the famous Oriental tales and the impression they made on you. Blue domes, Aladdin with his lamp and genie inside it, brave Ali Baba and the 40 thieves, the countless treasures of Simsim cave, splendid shah’s palaces, beautiful peris and terrible daevas… They made many of us feel most intense joy and fear, vividly imagine their exotic settings, and want to find ourselves inside them, visiting the mysterious Oriental lands they came from - the lands of magic and adventure.

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«Magical world of Oriental ceramic»

Countries: Uzbekistan
Ceramical tour in Uzbekistan
Tour duration: 9 days
Best time to travel: May - October

If you choose the vacation in Uzbekistan, apart from the slender minarets, high towers and blue domes, your heart will be conquered forever by surprisingly distinctive applied arts of this land! Among its numerous kinds special place is occupied by an art pottery. At all times the best works of the Uzbek art pottery with a rare expressiveness and laconism revealed the true features of people"s creative genius! Rishtan and Gijduvan ceramics, glassware from Bukhara, as well as the numerous clay figurines, toys and the dishes - all these objects are decorated with distinctive ornaments and many unique patterns, which in best way represent warmth of the soul of Uzbek people, their nature and unique culture! Discovering local features, You discover the whole world - a unique world of East and hospitable Asia! Welcome!

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«Carpet as a picture of the soul of Orient»

Countries: Uzbekistan - Iran
Thematic excursion carpet tour in Central Asia and Iran
Tour duration: 15 days
Best time to travel: May - October

The main purpose of this tour is meeting the tourist with carpet weaving - the ancient art of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Iran. Tourists visit workshops, where they see the magic transformation of the colored fibers to the amazing artwork. Also they visit carpet museum in Ashgabat where one of the best Persian carpets collection is exposed. Exactly here is also exposed the biggest carpet in the world! We invite you to open for yourself a lot of ancient mysteries and secrets, answers on it you will “read” among different ornaments of the famous ancient Asian carpets. Welcome!

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«Uzbekistan trough viewfinder»

Countries: Uzbekistan
Thematic photo-tour in Uzbekistan
Tour duration: 10 days
Best time to travel: May - October

Oriental lands are mysterious and enigmatic, height of minarets attracts view, evoke imagination ancient minarets and arks, elders in chapans (national warehouse coat) and beauties wrapped up to yashmak make appear some mystic compositions, evoke new and new images at the flexible mind of photographer. In case you are professional photographer or just of photographic work-lover «Central Asia Travel» Co. invites you to take part at this tour. We offer you deep into the world of photography, to feel the culture and traditions of Uzbek people via many images and get a lot of new information about rules of photo-shooting due to tell about this trip with help of pictures made in this tour.

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«Navrouz is oriental New Year Holiday»

Countries: Uzbekistan
Excursion tour in Uzbekistan
Tour duration: 9 days
Best time to travel: May

Navrouz is a day of vernal equinox, the most cheerful, bright and beautiful holiday not only in Uzbekistan, but in whole Central Asia! Since earliest times all the happiest moments in human life were jointed with spring coming! What doest it mean, Navruz? In translation from Farsi means “new day”, well, in reality Navruz mean spring coming, but spring is exactly new day, new life when it seems that everything is reviving, waking up from the long time winter sleeping and everything is beautiful and fairy-tale! In that trip we are offering you to feel in full measure that cheerful and full of new hopes holiday!

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«Farewell song of Aral Sea»

Countries: Uzbekistan
Excursion tour in Uzbekistan
Tour duration: 13 days
Best time to travel: March - October

An unique trip four-wheel drive vehicle (4WD) is going trough the Kyzyl-Kum desert, which is one of the greatest Asian deserts. En route you will have an opportunity to see unlimited sands and little oasis, hide at the deserts settlements of herdsmen, grazing cattle at the scant pastures, stony ruins of the trees, singular vegetable and animal kingdom of the Asian desert .You will reach the bank of the Aral sea, crossed many kilometers of the road at desert and than- of the ex-sea bottom. Unfortunately, there is risk of his totally disappearance in the future 10-15 years.


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«Christmas at the Oriental fairy tale»

Countries: Uzbekistan
Christmas tour in Uzbekistan
Tour duration: 9 days
Best time to travel: December - January

Christmas is amazing time, when heart is full of expectation of the miracle… And this miracle is happen! Christmas is the most family holiday! There are many different superstitions, jointed with this holiday! For example, many Europeans believe that bees sing songs about Twelfth Night in beehive… Don’t you have a wish to find yourself at the Oriental fairy tale at this magic day? We offer you to celebrate Christmas by the Oriental way - in Uzbekistan! Finding yourself among snowy dome of the minarets, many arches with Asian ornaments, where air is full of oriental spicery together with fragrance of the fir cone, you will certainly feel that amazing atmosphere of the holiday.

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