Karshi City Tour

Tour Itinerary

Your guide and driver will pick you up from your Karshi hotel to begin the tour of Karshi, a city over 2700 years old. Your private tour will include:

• Excursion to Yerkurgan Fortress (9th-8th centuries BC) of Nautaka, the first capital of Kashkadarya Region and site of an epic battle between Alexander the Great and Spitamen.
• Walk across Karshi Bridge (Amir Timur Bridge, 16th century), one of the oldest surviving bridges in Central Asia. Built by Abdullakhan II on the Kashkadarya River, it measures 122 meters long and 8 meters wide.
• Tour Abdulazizhon, Qilichbay and Bekmir Madrasahs (dates vary), a quiet complex of religious institutions.
• Visit Sardoba (16th century), an underground water tank which helped to supply water to the arid region and nearby mosque.
• Odina Madrasah (16th century), the only madrasah among hundreds in the Bukhara Emirate which was built for women.
• Kok-Gumbaz Mosque (16th century), the largest and most exquisite mosque in the city which sits on the site of the ancient Namazgah Mosque.
• Karshi Baths (16th century), a restored bathhouse where fact and fiction now intermingle.
• Drive to Karshi World War II Memorial, one of the largest, most unusual monuments of its kind in Central Asia. The rotunda, which looks particularly amazing, creates a unique aura with its stained-glass windows.

Transfer back to the hotel. End of Karshi City Tour.

Tour Duration: approximately 4 hours

Video of Karshi