Subject matter: Archaeology, ethnography and nature

Present-day Boysun district located in south-western part of Surkhandarya province was one of the strategically important regions, first of Bactrian state, then of Hellinistic and Tokharistan-Chaghanian, later the Temurid Empires and Bukhara Emirate. Most of Boysun district is occupied by highland and piedmont pastures.

At the foot of Boysuntau mountains there’re very beautiful and picturesque villages as Sayrob, Darband, Tuda, Machay and Kizilnaur – ancient habitats of people who had a noticeable impact on the cultural life of the entire region.

National traditions and customs, songs and dances, crafts and rituals, historical style in dressing have been preserving in Surkhandarya region almost in absolute purity, especially in a very spectacular Boysun area.

Developing this 5-day special tour for dear guests of Boysun I did my best to include the most interesting and attractive sites of this gem of Southern Uzbekistan.

Only this special tour offers you an opportunity to hike along the footsteps of Neanderthals for whom the mountain grottoes here were the most comfortable dwellings to survive.

And where again in Uzbekistan one will have the best opportunity to walk around the Hellenic fortresses of antique period besides Boysun?

And I am very excited to offer my customers visits to the most ancient strategic fortresses established in Boysuntau mountain foothills by great Hellenic kings.

By the way, if you are a big lover of ethnography or you are doing any researches on ethnography Boysun is the right place to choose.

Where else one can watch the dances of Shamans and Zoroastrians’ ritualic dances? Where else one can observe such diverse embroidery types in Uzbekistan? 

Day-1. Arrival in Boysun by train. Meet with the guide & driver at the train station.

Transfer to the hotel. Breakfast at the hotel.

Start sightseeing tour. Visit the UNESCO’s Crafts’ centre with the museum of rarest Boysun embroidery. Drive to the house of a local artisan, a famous smith who produces ” Chanqovuz” a traditional musical instrument.

Visit the canyons ” Kizil”. Drive to the village Padang to visit Zauvboshi Canyon & beautiful juniper forest at the foothills of Boysuntau mountains. Lunch at local chaykhana (tea house). Continue the sightseeing with visiting Omonkhona village with its famous health sanatorium. Free time to discover Boysun town.

Folklore and dance performance by “Boysun” folklore and ethnographic ensemble.    Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day-2. Breakfast at the hotel. Start the sightseeing tour. Drive to “Rabat” village to visit archaeological site from Kushan period II B.C.- II A.D. cc. Visit  to ” Kurghanzol” a Greek Fortress of IV- III cc. B.C.

Transfer to a picturesque Sairob village to visit 1000 y.o. plane trees (Chinar). Lunch in Sairob chaykhana. Continue the sightseeing tour with visiting ” Uzundara” a Greek Fortress of IV-III cc. B.C. Drive back to Boysun town. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day-3. Breakfast at the hotel. Start sightseeing. Transfer to Darband village. Walk along a narrow mountain passage which once in ancient times served as an important branch of a trade road connecting Bactria with neighbouring Sogdiana.

On the way stop  at 1000y.o.  water mill with its unique traditional bakery where one has a chance to enjoy tasting delicious “Rye Bread”, a rare type of bread in Uzbekistan.

Walking along a beautiful Darband mountain pass will undoubtedly admire you, especially “ Khojamaykhona” natural  spring which is very popular among people for its mineral water.

Drive to Kaptarkhona mountain pass. Walking along this unique place one can feel himself as in any  Hollywood movies. Transfer to Middle Machay village. Lunch at a local house. Free time to discover one of the remotest & most beautiful mountain villages in southern Uzbekistan.Acquaintance with Machay village artisans and observing the daily house chores of village family.  Dinner & overnight at the local house.

Day-4. Breakfast at the local house. Start the sightseeing tour. Drive to Upper Machay village. Start a hiking tour up to the Teshiktash Cave, the very place where in 1939 archaeologists discovered a skeleton of a 9 y.o. Neanderthal girl.

Lunch at the nature. (picnic).

Drive to Kizilnaur village to visit the highest waterfall of Central Asia. Drive back to Boysun town.  Dinner& overnight at the hotel.

Day-5. Breakfast at the hotel. Start the sightseeing. Transfer to Panjob village to enjoy a lovely nature of mountains & beautiful Panjobsoy. Drive to Homkon village to visit the famous meteorite lake ” Kanbeshbulakh” at a sea-level of over 1.600 m. Walking around this unique place. Lunch is a picnic around Kanbeshbilakh.

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