Pick-up from your hotel in Bukhara. Departure.
It takes 4-5 hours drive with stops to the Yurt Camp at the Aydarkul Lake (±270 km).
Route: Bukhara - Navai (ancient caravanserai and water reserve) - Sarmish (petroglyphs) - Nurota - Yurt Camp (dinner, songs of local nomads around the campfire, dancing, night in Yurt)
Description:
Day 1:
Departure. Along the road estimated photostops and visits.
- Navai: Visit the an ancient 14th century caravanserai and a nearby underground reservoir where rain and melting snow flows.
- Sarmish: Along the way on a small hill you can see petroglyphs where different animals are depicted
- Nurota complex: In this place you can see the ruins of an Ancient Citadel of Alexander the construction of which is prescribed to Alexander Great. Furthermore, there are 2 mosques of XVI th century. In the centre there is a pond where numerous fish live but it is forbidden to catch them.
- Aydarkul Lake: Lunch at the lake shore, swimming if the weather allows.
Description:
- Yurt Camp: while dinner is cooked, travellers may enjoy camel riding, watch the sunset, and after dinner relax in a company at the camp fire listening to folk songs of local nomads, than explore the milky way in the clear sky.
- Night in Yurt Camp
Day 1:
Route: Yurt Camp – Bukhara (or Samarkand)
Breakfast and free time for a walk on the dunes.
Departure towards Bukhara (drop-off you can select Samarkand)
It takes 4-5 hours drive towards Bukhara (±270 km) / Samarkand aprx. 5hrs (330 km).
Approximate time of arrival 15:00.
- Bukhara (or Samarkand): Arrival to Hotel / Airport / Railway Station
