Uzbekistan through the holy places

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During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage.

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Detail of the stay : Uzbekistan through the holy places

  • Tashkent
  • Tashkent
  • Boukhara
  • Boukhara
  • Samarkand
  • Samarkand
  • Ferghana
  • Chakhimardan
  • Chakhimardan
  • Tashkent
  • Tashkent
  • Tashkent

How to get there - Tachkent

Arrival in Tashkent

Steps: Tachkent

Isolated from the rest of the Muslim empire by the emergence of a Shiite power in Iran, the Muslims of Central Asia then had to face the war waged by communism against Islam, then remained isolated under the sway of the Soviet regime.

Visit of the great places of worship of the Uzbek capital: Barak Khan madrasa, where the grand mufti of Central Asia is located, and excursion to the mausoleum of Zenghi Ata in the afternoon.

Places of interest : MAUSOLÉE DE ZENGHI ATA

The Pearl of Islam

Gour Emir.

Steps: Boukhara

Flight to Bukhara in the morning. Visit to the mausoleum of Baha al-Din Naqchband (1318-1389), the founder of the Sufi order of the Naqchbandi, the most widespread in Central Asia. Three pilgrimages to the tomb of Naqchband are equivalent to a pilgrimage to Mecca.

The Timurid capital

Place du Registan.

Steps: Samarkand

Travel to Samarkand in the morning. Visit of the Al-Bukhari mausoleum, one of Hadith's greatest collectors, born in 810 in Bukhara. He collected more than 600,000 words from the Prophet during a 15-year journey through the Muslim world. President Islam Karimov erected a rich mausoleum for him, financed by Saudi Arabia, claiming to make it a new Mecca.

Towards the stronghold of Central Asia

Steps: Chakhimardan

Samarkand flight at Ferghana. Walk in the afternoon to the hills of Chakhimardan.

On Ali's grave

Samsa, spécialités ouzbeks.

Steps: Chakhimardan

Excursion to the Chakhimardan Mountains, an Uzbek enclave located 55 km inside the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic. There is one of the seven tombs of Ali, the Prophet's son-in-law, in the sumptuous setting of the high mountains and at the confluence of two rivers with transparent waters.


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