Departure from Samarkand.
It takes 4-5 hours drive with stops to the Yurt Camp at the Aydarkul Lake (±250 km).
Route: Samarkand - Nurota - Yurt Camp (dinner, songs of local nomads around the campfire, dancing, night in Yurt)
Description:
Day 1:
- 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 (Yurt Camp base keep the rights change lunch location from Lake Shore to Yurt Camp).
- 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 2:
Breakfast and free time for a walk on the dunes.
Departure.
It takes 4-5 hours drive towards Bukhara (±270 km).
Approximate time of arrival 18:00
Route: Yurt Camp - Sarmish (petroglyphs) - Navai (ancient caravanserai and water reserve) – Bukhara
Description:
- Sarmish: Along the way on a small hill you can see petroglyphs where different animals are depicted
- Navai: Visit the an ancient 14th century caravanserai and a nearby underground reservoir where rain and melting snow flows.
- Bukhara: Arrival to Hotel / Airport / Railway Station
