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- Tour Operator:
- East Site Inc
- Max group size:
- 10
- Age range:
- 55 to 85
- Operated in:
- English
- Tour id:
- 184272
Places You’ll See
Highlights
- Explore Almaty's historic sites and markets
- Discover the majestic Issyk Kul Lake
- Tour the ancient city of Samarkand
- Experience the vibrant bazaars of Bukhara
- Visit the flaming gas craters of Derweze
Itinerary
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- Day 1 Almaty
- Day 2 Almaty
- Day 3 Almaty – Bishkek
- Day 4 Bishkek – Issyk Kul
- Day 5 Issyk Kul – Chopon Ata – Grigorevka Gorge – Bishkek – Tashkent
- Day 6 Tashkent
- Day 7 Tashkent – Samarkand
- Day 8 Samarkand
- Day 9 Samarkand – Bukhara
- Day 10 Bukhara
- Day 11 Bukhara – Farab – Turkmenabat – Mary
- Day 12 Mary – Ashgabat
- Day 13 Ashgabat – Nissa – Ashgabat
- Day 14 Ashgabat
- Day 15 Ashgabat – Derweze
- Day 16 Derweze – Dashoguz
- Day 17 Dashoguz – Kunya – Urgench – Khiva
- Day 18 Khiva – Urgench – Tashkent
- Day 19 Tashkent – Khujand
- Day 20 Khujand – Oybek – Tashkent
- Day 21 Tashkent
What's Included
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- Accommodation
- Flights
- Guide
- Insurance
- Meals
- Additional Services
- Transport
What's Not Included
- Additional Services
Operated by
East Site Inc
Number of tours
8
Age Range
55 to 85 years old
Response time
within 3 days
Response rate
100%
All inclusive tour packages with no hidden costs.
Customer Reviews
- Overall RatingExcellent
- ItineraryExcellent
- GuideExcellent
- TransportExcellent
- AccommodationExcellent
- FoodExcellent
- WWalterColeman· May 31st, 2021I traveled with East Site in 2013, 2016, 2018. It's those magic Central Asian tours that I miss so much since we went into isolation. And I look forward to the day when I am able to travel those countries once again!Trip date: October 2018
- TThoraGray· April 16th, 2021We took their 5 Stans in 2018. Really good organization, nice attitude, ideal prices!Trip date: August 2018
- SSonia· January 25th, 2021I traveled with my spouse Bianca Cooper in October 2019. It was Central Asian tour "5 Stans". You might need some waterproof clothing. East Site gave us two umbrellas and baseball hats - it was nice of them.Trip date: October 2019
- MMarthaCohn· November 11th, 2019Overall it was a 4 because the days were too long and there wasn't one "down day" to rest and recuperate. Up by 7, back in the room by 10 PM was hard for 25 or 26 days. I thought the markets were interesting the first time but not the 5th, 6th and 7th, since most of them were nearly the same. The food was usually pretty good, but the process of taking each person's order, first for soup, then for salad, then for main meal, took forever after a long day of touring. I learned that they serve way too much for most people, and usually I only had two courses and often had to leave food on my plate. Some people on the tour loved wine, and the wine available was not magnificent but was drinkable. Beer drinkers seemed to think the beer was OK too. There wasn't much to see in Kazakhstan nor in Kyrgizistan although just driving through some of it was informative. I could have skipped seeing the images on the rocks, a few of the museums that didn't have much to show, and one or two of the mosques--after having seen 15 or so it wasn't exciting anymore. However, when going sight seeing, one usually sees the historic beauties of a place, or the homes of famous people or amazing art. the history of the Stans starts after Genghis Khan and Tamerlane stopped leveling the region, the Silk Road and the culture. Therefore, most of the significant places to see are from the late 1400s and 1500s--with a few from the late 1800s and one or two modern mosques. Islam came into its own before Genghis came through, but about all that was rebuilt of note after his passage were mosques and madrassas. We learned about the meaning in the patterns in "Persian" carpets, the beautiful horses of Turkmenistan, the importance of carpets in nomad tents, the tools of war when mounted on horses and how mare's milk tastes. It was a fascinating trip, with a few repetitive things (often the food was basically the same, the mosques were pretty but there were a lot of them, the hotels were comfortable and internet was intermittent at best. Don't bother to bring a swim suit, there is no time to swim even if the hotel has a pool--which is seldom the case. When one returns to the hotel at 10 after a long day, the last thing any of us wanted to do was don a suit and take a swim). Turkmenistan, although considered very dangerous by the US embassy in Tashkent AND all of my outside information, was fascinating and I am glad we went there even though I was nervous while there. Border crossings were tedious (3 or 4 hours usually) but East Site helped us all of the way and their end of things was well covered--buses were where they should be every time, hotels were ready for us, restaurants were prepared for our influx although occasionally the service was incredibly slow, museums were braced for our visit, etc. Be prepared for heat--bring a cotton scarf or shawl or hat that you can wet with water and put over your head and neck to help keep you cool. Be aware that a lot of the hotel safes didn't work, so if you are brining valuables with you, either money or tech, etc., you will probably need to haul it around in a back pack if you are nervous about it disappearing from the room. We never had anything disappear from any rooms, but we did have a few things disappear from our suitcases during their transit from airplanes to luggage bays (they often are trucked from the plane to the terminal). There are normally squat toilets and seldom "western" toilets except in the hotels and occasionally restaurants. Bring plenty of tissue packs to provide your own toilet paper, and plenty of hand cleaner as there aren't sinks to wash your hands in usually in the bathrooms.Show moreTrip date: May 2019
Dates & Availability
21 days
Central Asia 5 Stans with Hell's Gate Derweze
From Almaty to Tashkent
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