Itinerary

1. Day 1: Sightseeing of the historical heritage

   • Start of the city tour:
     • Mausoleum of Amir Temur - The conqueror, emperor and founder of Temurids dynasty Amir Temur built this mausoleum for the most favorite grandson Muhammad Sultan who was supposed to take the throne after his grandfather. The future ruler passed before his grandfather, so Amir Temur built the mausoleum for Muhammad Sultan in XV century. 
     • Mahalla - visit the local neighborhood to see the true life of locals, its the community of craftsmen that used to live and run their small family business in there. The way how the Mahallas were designed is very unique and special life experience that could help them to survive during the extreme hot weather. 
     • Registan Square - The most important and truly unique complex that consists from three Madrasas of XV-XVII centuries. It's not only the tourist sight, there always crowd of local visitors who come from different parts of Uzbekistan. The first Madrasa was built by the grandson of Amir Temur - Ulughbek, so its named after him. Madrasas Sher Dor and Tilla Kori were constructed by Yalangtush Bahadur, he was a ruler of Samarkand in XVII century.
   • Lunch Break (visit the local house and cook a traditional meal) 
     • Siyab Bazaar - Blend of smells, spices and silk - it represents the actual life of local people of Samarkand. In the past, quite while ago when internet and newspapers were not invented yet, everybody would know gossips by visiting bazaars. Even now there are big number of customers who do shopping in bazaars, so its the brilliant place to touch a local culture.  
     • Bibi Khanum Mosque - Victorious campaign of Amir Temur to The North of India played a big role to built one of the largest mosques in Central Asia that could fit 15.000 muslims in one time.
     • Shakhi Zinda Necropolis - The elite of XIV century of Samarkand were buried close to the cousin of the Prophet Muhammad - Qusam ibn Abbas, who was the firts muslim that buried in Central Asia. This is the main reason why everybody wanted to built a mausoleum and to be buried closer to him. So there are number of special mausoleums that were built in XIV century by recognized architects of that period.

2. Day 2: Enjoy the archeological views of the city

   • Start of the city tour:
     • Observatory of Ulughbek - Mirzo Ulughbek was a big man of science and education, so Observatory of Ulughbek is the special project of him. He built it in XV century to explore the sky with just naked eyes, telescopes and optical instruments were not invented yet. Ulughbek discovered duration of a year and identified one thousand and eighteen stars and named all of them. 
     • Saint Daniels Mausoleum - According the local legend Saint Daniel was buried in Samarkand by the order of Temur in XIV century, very modest and quiet place attracts representatives of three big religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism. 
   • Lunch Break (visit the local Chaikhana - tea house where normally tourists wont go)
     • Museum of Archeology Afrasiyab - it covers medieval period of history of Samarkand, Genghiz Khan destroyed Samarkand completely and vanished from the earth everything that did exist in Samarkand. On the ruins of the ancient Samarkand was built a museum of archeology in Soviet Union period that contains artifacts that were found during archeological excavations and displayed in glass cabinets. 
     • Visit the Jewish neighborhood - Jews migrated to Samarkand couple centuries ago, they built their own Mahalla, own synagogue and  hamman - bath. The synagogue is still operating and hosting believers during Shabbat.