Two-Day Samarkand City Tour
Tour Details
2 days
from $160 / per person
Description
Samarkand is so rich in culture and history that there is simply not enough time to experience it all in a day! With our two-day Samarkand city tour package, you can leisurely wander the ‘must-see’ sites of this enchanting city – Registan, Ulugbek Observatory, Shakhi Zinda - and still have time for the more hands-on experiences of carpet-weaving, paper-making and exploring an archeological excavation site.
Program
Your private city tour of Samarkand, led by an experienced, local guide, will include the following:
- Tour of the spectacular Registan Square, the social and commercial center of Samarkand for centuries. The square includes three madrasahs: Ulugbek Madrasah (15th century), Sher-Dor Madrasah (17th century) and Tilla-Kori Madrasah (17th century);
- Walk along a boulevard lined with workshops and souvenir stores to reach Siab Bazaar, where you can sample or buy sweets, fruits and Samarkand’s famous bread;
- Visit Bibi Khanum Mosque, built by Tamerlane for his favorite wife;
- Explore Shakhi Zinda (Living King) complex, constructed gradually between the 9th-14th centuries. Climb the blue-domed path and explore more than 20 small mausoleums that line the broad alleyway;
- Continue sightseeing at Mausoleum of Gur-Emir – the resting place of Tamerlane and Ulugbek;
- Drive to the Ulugbek Observatory to see the remains of a 14th-15th century sextant;
- Tour the Ulugbek museum.
Continue sightseeing in Samarkand with a trip to the following:
- Excavation site and museum of the ancient city of Afrosiab;
- Mausoleum of Khodja Daniyar, believed to be the Koranic and Biblical prophet Daniel, whose remains were brought here by Tamerlane;
- Drive to Konigil village to observe the traditional way of making Samarkand paper from mulberry leaves;
- Excursion to the Oriental Silk carpet factory in Samarkand.
Includes
Price includes:
- Private, local guide;
- Entrance fees to the sights as per itinerary;
- Transport throughout the city tour.
Prices
| Persons | Economy |
|---|---|
| 1 person | $380 |
| 2 persons | $225 |
| 3 persons | $210 |
| 4 persons | $180 |
per person
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Reviews
Our tour guide Nusrat in Tashkent was also very good and a very jolly and knowledgeable person.
The guide Temur today in Samarkand was very good and very friendly. We are looking to our tour on Friday.
Thanks the guide Jahongir in Khiva arrived and was very good thank you.
The guide Maksad in Bukhara was also very good and a lovely person.
Thank you very much for organizing our tours. We had a great time in Uzbekistan!
Two day Tour Bukhara and Samarkand. We are writing to thank you for the tour.
Your country is beautiful and we hope to be back before too long.
The guides were all very good and everything was well organized.
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This is to say Thank you for all the Wonderful service from all your people and the warm reception that we had from Uzbek People all over at Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand. We enjoyed our stay and learned a lot about the customs, Monuments, Culture, and lifestyles. It was my dream to see all these places that we have been reading about in our history books, specially Bukhara and Samarkand. It was a revelation to know about the Romance of Farhod and Shirin took place here, as we have been hearing about these legendary stories.
Highlights of the Tour:
- Dinner at Registan Restaurant at Samarkand. Great Food, Hospitable Hostess, both the mother and daughter.
- Experience at Hammam at Bukhara. Just took me back to 17th Century.
- Timur's Mausoleum. We cud feel that the Humayun's Tomb in Delhi was Inspired by this architecture.
- All the Beautiful People, it was as if God has created all the best looking people at Uzbek only, it is not that we Indians are not good looking but the beauty was in abundance.
- Cleanliness on the Roads.
Thanks again for everything.
We enjoyed very much our trip to Uzbekistan and would first like to thank you and your team for the excellent organization of all the details. Some specific comments:
Especially we would like to convey to you how very pleased we were with the service and friendship of our driver, Gemma. He was always very helpful and thoughtful, and he was good-natured and within a few days we felt a friendship with him. I hope that you will especially communicate to him how much we appreciated his hospitality and courtesy (and he was also a very good driver and guide!).
The tour guides (i.e., in Samarkand and in Bukhara) were also very good; they were knowledgeable and spoke excellent English and were very courteous.
Also, Rustam, in the mountains, was an excellent guide and we enjoyed his stories about Uzbekistan history and culture. You are very fortunate to have Gemma and Rustam on your team. The horseback riding trek was amazing! … perhaps our favorite day, and you should Maybe give more highlight to this horseback riding trek on your website.
The hotels (Samarkand, Bukhara) were fine. They were clean and comfortable. So, in summary, we enjoyed our trip to Uzbekistan, and I would like to thank you personally for the hard work and commitment in planning and making all of the arrangements. I would not hesitate in recommending OrexCA to other travelers/tourists. I look forward to returning to Uzbekistan someday
In September, Ruth and I made a great trip to the Silk Road in Uzbekistan. It was a great adventure for us especially for me since I always wanted to retrace Marco Polo's travels. The cities of Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand are real jewels and bring the stories of 1001 nights to life. The Mosques and Madrasassah's are wonders of Islamic architecture and rival the Taj Mahal in India.
Antonio and I have been very happy with the trip. We have liked a lot of Uzbekistan. Maybe the less tourist area is Fergana but interesting. The city that but I have liked it is Bukhara, is a very welcoming city and their very kind people.
We have been very satisfied of the guides and the one that less we have liked it has been that of Khiva. Mohamed (Bukhara) and Valentina and Larisa (Samarkanda) especially. Bukhara and Samarkanda have become trained very well. Firat (driver) he is a great professional. It is very pleasant and competent.
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