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- Intrepid Travel
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- Curated to ignite your sense of adventure
- Group Tour
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- Partially Guided
- Independent travel, featuring selected guided excursions
- Guided in English
- Group Size 1 - 12
- Ages 15+
Places You’ll See
Highlights
- Discover the history and former glory of the Silk Road with visits to the ancient trade towns and ruins in Bukhara, Samarkand and Merv.
- Rub shoulders with the locals at bazaars, hear about their daily life and learn about how to make plov with a local family in Samarkand.
- Spend a night in the yurt camp near Issyk-kul Lake. Taste the popular Kygyz snack boorsook, see how Kyrgyz carpets are made and enjoy a peaceful night under the stars, living like a local nomad.
- Explore Central Asia’s landscape on short hikes to the flaming red rocks in Jety Ogus and the Charyn Canyon in Kazakhstan.
- Unveil the mysterious Turkmenistan in its white capital of Ashgabat, which rose from the devastation of an earthquake in 1948 and see the futuristic transformation the city has gone through on a city tour with your local leader.
Itinerary
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- Introduction
- Day 1 Bishkek
- Day 2 Bishkek
- Day 3 Lake Issyk Kul
- Day 4 Karakol
- Day 5 Almaty
- Day 6 Almaty
- Day 7 Overnight train to Tashkent
- Day 8 Tashkent
- Day 9 Samarkand
- Day 10 Samarkand
- Day 11 Bukhara
- Day 12 Bukhara
- Day 13 Mary
- Day 14 Ashgabat
- Day 15 Ashgabat
- Day 16 Ashgabat
What's Included
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- Accommodation
- Guide
- Meals
- Additional Services
- Transport
- Free eSIMTourRadar offers the lead traveler (the person who booked) a free 1GB eSIM for the trip. The eSIM is redeemable only through the TourRadar app 72 hours before departure.
What's Not Included
- Flights
- Insurance
- Optional
- Additional Services
Operated by
Intrepid Travel
Number of tours
1,520
Age Range
5 to 99 years old
Response time
6 hours
Response rate
92%
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Customer Reviews
- YELENA· December 12th, 2024The Central Asia tour was extremely enjoyable and included a varied mix of history, old and new cities along the Silk Road, varied nature of canyons, mountains, lakes, deserts, and a mix of city and rural life. Wonderful people. Special thanks to our guides Svetlana and Ejesh. Our drivers, local guiedes and hosts. Thanks you, Intrepid.Show more
- Joanna· May 25th, 2023A great mix of Silk Road splendours with rural retreat. Our guide Jamshed was superb and greatly facilitated our group’s interaction with the people, places and cultures we encountered. Samarkand was a dream come true and Bukhara a surprise highlight. Our group strongly recommend the hammam visit as a great bonding experience and u can’t go past a bottle of Shtoff vodka for the price of a beer!Show more
- Glenn· October 6th, 2019Great trip! Saw great sights, stayed in very nice hotels (in general), and had great guides. My only negative comment is that there were a couple of days where they try to fit too much into the itinerary, so that we didn't eat dinner until very late (9:30 pm one night).Show more
Dates & Availability
16 days
Highlights of Central Asia
From Bishkek to Ashgabat
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