Registan Square, Bukhara

Journey · 1 day

Bukhara - Samarkand

Visit of Gijduvan on the way to Samarkand

BukharaSamarkand
Drive
260 km4 hr 30 min
Season
Year-Round
Meals
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
Elevation gain
480 m

Journey route

The route

  1. 01
    OriginBukhara
  2. 02
    DestinationSamarkand

Journey notes

About this Journey

Breakfast. Drive to Gijduvan, famous for its school of ceramists. Visit the "workshop of ceramists", the ruins of Caravanserai Raboti Malik, and the Sardoba water cistern. Road to Samarkand, arrival in the city. Breakfast. Visit the Afrociabe museum with its frescoes dating from the VII and VIII centuries, the Ulugbeg observatory, one of the greatest astronomers of his time, and the Samarkand parchment workshop made according to the ancestral methods of mulberry bark. Show of the historical and traditional costumes of the theater "El Merosi". Dinner. Overnight at the hotel.

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