Guided tours across Uzbekistan
Every tour runs with a licensed Marvent guide, private transport and hand-picked hotels. Departures are set, but each itinerary can be run privately on dates you choose.
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Photo: Fabio Achilli / Wikimedia CommonsThe Classic Silk Road
Tashkent · Samarkand · Shakhrisabz · Bukhara · Khiva
The full journey through Uzbekistan’s four great cities. Walk the Registan at dawn, sleep inside Bukhara’s old town, cross the Kyzylkum desert to Khiva and finish in the walled city of Itchan Kala. High-speed Afrosiyob trains link the cities, with a private vehicle for the desert crossing.
Photo: Ymblanter / Wikimedia CommonsSamarkand & Bukhara by High-Speed Train
Tashkent · Samarkand · Bukhara
The two jewels of the Silk Road in five unhurried days, linked by Uzbekistan’s high-speed trains. A good first visit, or an extension to a business trip in Tashkent.
Photo: Betta27 / Wikimedia CommonsKhiva and the Desert Fortresses
Urgench · Khiva · Ayaz-Kala · Nukus
The ancient kingdom of Khorezm: the walled city of Khiva, mud-brick fortresses rising from the Kyzylkum, a night in a yurt camp and the Savitsky museum in Nukus.
Photo: Xasanboy off / Wikimedia CommonsFergana Valley: Silk, Clay and Bazaars
Tashkent · Kokand · Rishtan · Margilan · Fergana
Uzbekistan’s craft heartland. Watch ikat silk woven by hand in Margilan, throw a bowl with a Rishtan potter, and eat the best plov in the country.
Photo: Dan Lundberg / Wikimedia CommonsChimgan, Charvak & the Western Tian Shan
Tashkent · Chimgan · Charvak · Beldersay
Two hours from Tashkent the Tian Shan begins. Guided walks to waterfalls, a cable car to Beldersay, and lakeside evenings at Charvak. Easy enough for children, with longer routes for keen hikers.
Photo: Benjamin Goetzinger / Wikimedia CommonsSilk Road for Families
Tashkent · Samarkand · Bukhara
The great cities at a child’s pace: shorter guided walks, hands-on workshops in pottery, bread baking and puppet making, a camel ride, and family rooms in every hotel.
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Photo: Arian Zwegers / Wikimedia CommonsGrand Uzbekistan in Private
Tashkent · Samarkand · Bukhara · Khiva
The country’s finest hotels, a private guide and driver throughout, business-class trains, a private dinner in a Bukhara madrasa and after-hours access to the Registan.
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Photo: Fulvio Spada / Wikimedia CommonsNuratau Mountains & Aydarkul Yurt Camp
Samarkand · Nuratau · Aydarkul
Village homestays in the Nuratau range, walnut groves and petroglyphs, then a night under the stars in a yurt camp by Aydarkul lake, with a camel ride and campfire songs.