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Cultural Walking Tour in Bukhara
Cultural Walking Tour in Bukhara
Cultural Walking Tour in Bukhara
Cultural Walking Tour in Bukhara
Cultural Walking Tour in Bukhara

Cultural Walking Tour in Bukhara

By tourgoCA
Free cancellation available
Price is $80 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 8h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

See the sights of Bukhara on this tour. Visit mausoleums, parks, bazaars, museums, and archaeological monuments. Relax between destinations in private tour and let us handle the itinerary. Our guides will be only too happy to share local knowledge and the rich history of the country with you.

Activity location

  • Lyab-i-Hauz
    • B. Nakshabandi,
    • Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Lyabi Khauz
    • Buxoro, Buxoro Viloyati, Uzbekistan

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Cultural Walking Tour in Bukhara
  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h8h
  • English

Pickup included

Price details
$80.00 x 1 Adult$80.00
Total
Price is $80.00

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedAll Fees and Taxes
  • What's includedWhat's includedTour Guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLunch

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Lyab-i-Hauz
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Architectual ensemble Lyabi-Khauz is formed with three large monumental buildings: Kukeldash Madrasah in the north, khanaka and Nodir Divan-begi in the west and in the east. From the south the square was closed with Trade Street. The center of old Bukhara large ensemble became a reservoir. The name «Lyabi-Khauz» means «at reservoir». According to the old legend, for a long time knan gardener Nadir Divan-begi could not buy a lot for planned building, where a house of alone woman was. Then all-powerful vizier ordered to built a channel under women's house, and the water began to washaway walls, unhappy women had to sell this lot. The khan hauz secretly was called «khauz of violence», what in arabian inscription gives numerical meaning of building date - 1620.
Kalon Minaret
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
From the beginnings of Islam, there have been three types of mosques: Djuma mosques, which are intended for the large crowds that come to Friday services, Namazga country mosques (musalla idgoh), which are used by the male population of both the city and the surrounding countryside to celebrate the two Muslim holidays Qurban and Ramazan, and Quzar mosques, which are designed to be used as daily mosques in residential neighbourhoods.
Mir-i-Arab Madrasa
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
There are two big blue domes of the Miri-Arab madrasah towering above the surrounding buildings in the center of Bukhara. Along with the Kalyan mosque and minaret, this religious educational establishment forms the whole ensemble Poi-Kalyan that is the spiritual center of the city.
Poi Kalyan Mosque
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
It is the main ensemble in Bukhara center, situated on the way to trade crossing of "four bazars" and Poi-Kalyan means “the pedestal of the Great” (it means “the pedestal of Kalyan minaret”). Ensemble consists of 4 monuments: Kalyan mosque and Miri-Arab Madrasah – faced to each other with main fronts; between them is Kalyan minaret; to the south of Miri-Arab there is small Amir-Allimkhan Madrasah.
Trading Domes
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Bukhara is well-known to the world not only with its mosques, Ark Fortress and the majestic Kalyan minaret but also with its trading domes stretching in procession from Lyabi-Khauz to the Miri-Arab madrasah. Long ago, in the XVI century under the Shaybanides dynasty, Bukhara became the capital giving rise to unprecedented growth of the city, and since it was located on the Great Silk Road, the markets and trading stores even more congested cross-roads of public roads. Several centuries passed since that and four trading domes have only survived up to date.
Ark of Bukhara
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
The Ark of Bukhara is a massive fortress located in the city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, that was initially built and occupied around the 5th century AD. In addition to being a military structure, the Ark encompassed what was essentially a town that, during much of the fortress's history, was inhabited by the various royal courts that held sway over the region surrounding Bukhara. The Ark was used as a fortress until it fell to Russia in 1920. Currently, the Ark is a tourist attraction and houses museums covering its history. The museums and other restored areas include an archaeological museum, the throne room, the reception and coronation court, a local history museum, and the court mosque.
Moschea Bolo-khauz
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Bolo-Khauz Complex is the only preserved monument on the Registan Square. It is located on the opposite site of Ark - the Emir's fortress. The complex consists of the reservoir, Friday mosque and minaret.
Samanid Mausoleum
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
The mausoleum is considered one of the iconic examples of early Islamic architecture and is known as the oldest funerary building of Central Asian architecture. The Samanids established their de facto independence from the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad and ruled over parts of modern Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan. It is the only surviving monument from the Samanid era, but American art historian Arthur Upham Pope called it "one of the finest in Persia".
Chor-Minor
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Chor Minor (Char Minar Uzbek: Chor minor), alternatively known as the Madrasah of Khalif Niyaz-kul, is a historic gatehouse for a now-destroyed madrasa in the historic city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan. It is located in a lane northeast of the Lyab-i Hauz complex. It is protected as a cultural heritage monument, and also it is a part of the World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Bukhara. In Persian, the name of the monument means "four minarets", referring to the building's four towers.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESLyab-i-Hauz
    • B. Nakshabandi,
    • Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLELyabi Khauz
    • Buxoro, Buxoro Viloyati, Uzbekistan

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