Two days trip, Khujand

Two days trip, Khujand

Khujand is more then 3 000 years old city.

Breakfast.

Transfer to Uzbek – Tajik border Oybek, meet Tajik local guide at the border then drive to Khujand (70km/ an hour drive)

Check in hotel

Khujand is the second largest city in the country. It’s also one of Tajikistan’s oldest town, founded by Alexander the Great in IV BC. The fortress was fortified by Alexander the great at IV BC and named after Alexander-Eskhata (Alexandria furthest) on the place of the present Khujand fortress (the 329 BC) and become the city of highly developed culture, important commercial and crafts centre. Commanding the entrance to the Fergana Valley and the Great Silk Road passed through Khujand from early historical backgrounds. Khujand enjoyed great prosperity and it’s riches spawned palaces, grand mosques and a citadel, before Mongols stream rolled the city into oblivion in the early XII century.

Sightseeing: Visit Historical museum of Sughd region, Eastern market Panjshanbe and mausoleum Shaykh Muslihiddin

Visit statue of Ismoili Somoni the founder of Tajik nation and Lenin statue.

Lunch in local restaurant.

Dinner and overnight in the hotel.

Day 2, Khujand – Tashkent 70+130km

   

Breakfast at the hotel 

Check out hotel

Drive to the cultural Arbob palace and national teahouse. Drive to Qayraqym water

Visit House museum of Tajik poet Kamoli Khujandi through walking the central Park

reserve (Tajik sea), visit carpet manufacture.

Launch in House Museum of Tajik poet Kamoli Khujandi

Afternoon. Transfer to Tajik – Uzbek border Oybek

Cross border

Meet Uzbek local guide at the border, transfer to Hotel (130km, 2 hours’ drive) 

Dinner and overnight in the hotel.

 

 

 

                                                        

 

Address:

Academicians Rajabovs 59,

Khujand, Tajikistan

Postal: 735700

Contacts:

Phone: +99292 7704258

Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Web: qalai-khujand.tj

 

Service includes:
- Transport
- Full board
- Visa supports

- Accommodation:

-  Hotel 4*
- Entrances to all museums
- Mineral water during the tour

- English speaker guides

 

Service does not include:
- Visas
- Single rooms
- Early check-in
- Travel insurance