Craft of the Fergana Valley

• Breakfast at hotel
• Transfer by train to Andijan
• Meeting our guide and driver. Start of the tour.

Walk in the countryside park “Bogi Shamol”, visit to the literary museum of the last Temurid and the first Mughal - Zahiraddin Muhammad Babur

• Lunch

20 km drive to the old part of Andijan. Visit to the craft center. Visiting the madrasah and the mosque of Jami of the early XX century. Walk through the handicraft rows of Andijan Bazaar.

15 km from Andijan-and we are in Kuva. Observing the ruins of the medieval center of glass production.

• 100 km way back to Fergana.
• Overnight at hotel

• Breakfast at hotel
• Meeting our guide. Start of the tour.

60 km way from Fergana to Akhsikath – the summer residence of Temurids in the end of XV century.

30 km more and we arrive in Chust, on a visit to the master of handmade Uzbek headwear – Chust Duppi.

• Lunch at “Six-tired” teahouse. Treat with Fergana traditional dish “Vody Osh”

110 km return to Fergana.

• Overnight at hotel

• Breakfast at hotel
• Meeting our guide. Start of the tour.

25-kilometer drive to the suburb of Margilan, walk through the largest Bazaar in the Fergana Valley – Kumtepa. Walking through the craft rows.

10 km way to Margilan. Visiting the local craft center producing “ikat” ornament fabrics “Said Akhmad-Khwaja”. Acquaintance with silk production and decoration of fabrics by applying stamps "chitgarlik".

• Lunch

10-kilometer drive to the Northern part of Margilan. Visit to the architectural complex of the late XIX century – “Pir Siddiq”.

Return to Fergana (25 km).

Walk into the Fergana suburban park. Watching the Fergana Regional Drama Theatre.

• Overnight at hotel

• Breakfast at hotel
• Meeting our guide and driver.
• Start of the tour.
• 50 km way to Rishtan.

Rishtan – one of the most ancient cities in the valley on the Great Silk Road. Since ancient times, it has been known as the largest center for the production of unique glazed ceramics in Central Asia.

Visit to the craftsman of ishkor glaze.

• Transfer to Kokand

In the Western part of the Fergana valley, in the lower reaches of the Sokh river and only 25 km from the Syr Darya river, Kokand is located.  Kokand can be translated as – "wonderful place". On all sides the city is surrounded by fertile lands, but sometimes there are islands of sand dunes and gravel. Today, Kokand is among cotton fields, vineyards and vegetable plantations, allowing one to grow rich harvests of root crops, cotton and juicy grapes.

• Visit to the family of Umarov – hereditary woodcarvers in Kokand style.
• Lunch
• Sightseeing of 5 Kokand architecture monuments:
  • Urda – the palace of Khudoyarkhan
  • Regional museum
  • Jami mosque and minaret
  • Necropolis Dahmai-Shakhon and Modarikhan
• Transfer to the station. Train Kokand – Tashkent.