We will pick you up from Bukhara, visit Shakhrisabz and drop you off in your hotel, accommodation or airport / railway in Samarkand.

By request this tour can be done in the opposite direction.

Route: Bukhara - Shakhrisabz - Takhtakaracha Pass - Samarkand
Duration:
Bukhara - Shakhrisabz ± 5 hours (270 kms).
Shakhrisabz - Samarkand ± 2 hours (80 kms)
Departure: Bukhara(hotel/airport/railway station)

Description:
Departure from Bukhara (the time can be customized by request of travellers).
We are heading towards Shakhrisabz from Bukhara. We will go through deserts (the deserts of Central Asia are not like Arab deserts) and across the steppe. Along the way, you can see a natural reserve from afar. On the road you can see huge amount of oil refineries and gas production companies. Only a person from the outside can smell the gas that local people have long been adapted.
Arrival in Shakhrisabz.

• Shakhrisabz: Tamerlane's hometown where by his order was built the largest residence in Central Asia from which today remain only the ruins of a huge entrance portal.
• Aksaray Residence
• Dorut Tilovat Complex (the mausoleum of Tamerlane's mentor and father)
• Dorus Saodat Complex (the mausoleum of Tamerlane's beloved son)
• Crypt of Tamerlan. The place where Timur himself also should have been buried, but sudden death forced the heirs to be buried in Samarkand, but Timur prepared a crypt for himself that has still been preserved but without burial.

Lunch (extra, by request we can arrange it by 12 usd per person. Salads, 1st meal, 2nd meal and desserts, season fruits, tea, water and bread)

Depart from Shakhrisabz.

• Takhtakaracha Pass: stop for Panoramic view from ±1600 m. In addition you can see many restaurants here that cook only lamb on clay ovens which is a local traditional dish and was a favorite food of Tamerlan .

Arrival in Samarkand (hotel/airport/railway station).