To SAMARQAND from Dushanbe, 3 day tour

Start of the tour: pick up tourists from hotel Departure to direction Penjikent (08:00). Along the way, we can get acquainted / see the sights of the Varzob district, and climbing the Anzob pass, meet the snowy air of the mountain peaks - Fann mountains

- Arriving and lunch in Penjikent (12:00) - Border crossing (13:00-15:00)

Arrival in Samarkand, accommodation in hotels (17:00-18:00) Walk in the evening Samarkand. Samarkand is one of the oldest cities in the world, founded, according to archaeological data, in the VIII century BC; the center of the historical region and the state of Sogdiana. For more than two thousand years, the city was a key point on the Great Silk Road between China and Europe, as well as one of the main centers of science of the medieval East

Breakfast at the hotel (07:00) Visit MAUSOLEUM (MUSEUM) AFROSIYOB - the museum tells about the history of the founding of the city of Samarkand, about its further history, tells about the settlement of Afrasiab. Some of the exhibits in the museum are related to the pre-Islamic era, partly related to the local version of Zoroastrianism, which was the main religion in Sogd before the arrival of Islam.

SHAHI Zinda is a monument of medieval architecture in Samarkand, an ensemble of mausoleums of the Karakhanid and Timurid nobility. Until the XVI century, it was called the Sheikh's Mazar, meaning Kusam ibn Abbas. Since the XVI century, the complex owes its name to the legend Shoh-i Zinda — "the living king". It says that the cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, Qusam ibn Abbas, came to Samarkand with a small army to establish Islam. During one of the pagan raids, Kusam ibn Abbas was struck by an arrow, but managed to hide from the eyes of the infidels in the crevice that formed (according to another version, in a well), where he lives to this day.

HAZRATI KHIZR MOSQUE - The first mention of the mosque dates back to the period of the Arab conquest of Sogd (the beginning of the VIII century). According to legend, after the capture of Samarkand by Kutyiba's troops in 712, the Arabs tried to flood the city fortress (kala) by damming the Jui-Arzis canal. However, a huge white bird descended from the sky, which destroyed the dam. In commemoration of this event, one of the companions of Kuteiba, Muhammad ibn Vasi, built the Hazret-Khizra mosque on the site of the Zoroastrian temple revered by the Sogdians at the southern tip of Afrasiab at the Iron Gate.

In this MUSEUM S.Aini lived since 1917, up to the beginning of the 50s of the last century. The house-museum is functioning to this day. S. Aini is the founder of modern literature of the Tajik people

SHERDOR MADRASAH is an Islamic educational, spiritual and educational, memorial and religious building of the XVII century. The Sherdor madrasah was built by the Samarkand architect Abdulzhabbor in 1619-1635/36 by order of the specific ruler (hakim) of Samarkand Yalangtush Bahadur

19:00 - end of Day and dinner

Sanctuary of Hazrat David - a holy place that attracts a large number of visitors and pilgrims every year. It is located near Aksay and Mehnatkash villages, located in Nurabad district of Samarkand region, 70 kilometers from Samarkand city (at an altitude of 1250 meters above sea level). THE COMPLEX OF IMAM AL-BUKHARI The complex was built in 1997-1998 as a religious and spiritual-educational facility of the end of the 20th century in the village of Hartang, Payarik district, Samarkand region. Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ismail Bukhari, better known as Imam Bukhari (year 870, Samarkand, Abbasid Caliphate) is a scholar, muhaddith and commentator, the author of one of the collections of narrations of Ahl al-Sunnah "al-Jame'u-s-sahih".

13:00 - lunch 14:00 - return to the city of Dushanbe 15:00 - crossing the Samarkand / Panjakent border 20:00 - arrival in Dushanbe, end of the trip