Flight and arrival
September 20, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Good flight from Vienna to Riga; on to Taschkent. Door to door around 13 hours with three hours time difference!
First Day in Taschkent
September 21, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Delicious breakfast in the Hyatt😊 then around the corner with the bus to the hotel Uzbekistan! Then the Hast Imam place with rebuilt Koran school, to see one of 4 oldest existing originals of theRead more
Day 2 Fergan
September 22, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Left Taschkent at 8 am with the Train to Andijon. Bare land at first then we reached the river with lots of trees, cotton fields as well as fields with varied crops! Visited the memorial and museum ofRead more
Day 3
September 23, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Silk producer in Margilan being the name of Yodgorlik then to Rishtan pottery production. Visited a Kirgisistan family at home. Night in kokant! Wonderful day😊
Day 4 Kokand
September 24, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Alikahnkhoji mosque with Koran school and grave yard. The tour of the palace of khudayarkhans, nineteenth century! Then 3 hour drive over the pass back to Tashkent!
Day 5 Tashkent
September 25, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Morning in the Museum of modern art afterwards to the Amir Timur museum and last but not least the Hodchi Ali Mosque. On the way by luxury bus to Samarkand we stopped in a cotton field!
Day 6 - Samarkand
September 26, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Went to Registan - which translates as ‚sand platz’in the morning, visited the 3 Koran schools there, which are no longer in use. Then by foot to coffee house in the center. Next was a visit toRead more
Day 7
September 27, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
By car we left at 10 and travelled over the Pamir mountains south to Shahrisabz. The place Timur was born 1366 . Mosque of the four blue domes, Mosque Hastati Emir with mausoleum of Dorus Saodat.Read more
Day 8 Samarkand
September 28, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
First stop was Daniel‘s tomb! Part of his bone is laid in a long hall to grow! Place of prayer and pilgrimage for the Uzbeks! Then into see the ancient wall paintings in Afrosaob, with museum !Read more
Day 9 Buchara
September 29, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Bus to the sameniden mausoleum, 1000 years old and in still there because it was covered in sand when Dingis Khan conquered. Then to the 2 Koran schools and on to the Bolo Khaus mosque with 40 woodenRead more
Day 10 Buchara
September 30, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Poikalon with both mosques Koran schools and the citadel! Long walk through the back streets of the center to the Bolo Chaus mosque built 1806 by an Indian architect. Synagogue and Jewish quarter -Read more
Day 11 Kagan
October 1, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Bus to the Nekropolis Tschor Bakr, mosque with Koran school and resting place of many Emirs. On to the Naqshbandi Sufi mausoleum. Place of pilgrimage for many. Picnic Centre with large kitchens acrossRead more
Day 12 Chiwa
October 2, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Susanne show i.e. embroidery. Left at 8am. Stopped to see the Ayaz Kala ruins of a fortress from 400 bc to 600 ad, the next stop the smaller fortress Toprak Kala ruins from 6th century AD. There wereRead more
Last day in Chiva
October 3, 2024 in Uzbekistan ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Walk into the Itschal Kala, inner city of Xiva , unescorted world cultural heretige. Oasis from 5th century rebuilt in the 18th and renovated in 1970. Tash Khovli with harem and court. Jim’s MosqueRead more
