Uzbekistan Adventure

Nine days tracing the Silk Road through Uzbekistan, starting and finishing in Tashkent, with the pace built around old trading cities rather than modern sights.

Bukhara gets two full days as one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Central Asia, and you break up the city time with a night in a yurt under the desert sky and an evening staying with a family in the Nuratau Mountains.

This is a proper step away from cities and routine comforts, into shared bathrooms, homestays and guesthouses — the kind of trip suited to travellers who want the real version of a place, not the polished one.

What you'll do

• Explore Bukhara's old town over two days
• Walk among the blue-tiled mosques and mausoleums of the Silk Road cities
• Sleep in a yurt in the Kyzylkum Desert
• Spend an evening at a homestay in the Nuratau Mountains
• Start and end in Tashkent