Every muslim knows such a names like Bahauddin Nakshbandi, Abduhallik Gijduvani.
During the tour you will have opportunity to make pilgrimage to the graves of this great theologians of Islam but also to other sacred places.
You will get know better one of the most mysterious branch in Islam- Sufism. The follower of this knowledge will talk you about Sufism and demonstrate you silent zikr (sufi meditation and prayer).
You will have opportunity to touch mystic but real sides of Sufism. You will visit the graves of Sufis where people during the centuries get treatment with water from the holy sources next to the Sufis graves. Almost every grave of the Sufi could give a treatment. Almost every has a legend.
Tashkent International Airport (Google Map)
3 Hours Before Flight Time
4 star hotel
Arrival to Tashkent. Pick up at the airport, transfert to hotel***.
Guided tour of the city : Madrassah and Mosque Barak Khan,Zangiata comlex ,Mausoleum Sheykh Zaynuddin Bobo,Ensemble of Shaykhantur ,Kaffal Al-Shashi mausoleum . The dinner. Overnight.
Capital of Timour (Tamerlan), Samarkand was the principal city of the Sogdiane antique. It thrived with the crossroads of the commercial main roads coming from China, of Siberia, of Perse and Occident, to the surge of the Mongolian hordes of Gengis Khan which destroyed the city before rebuilding it on ashes of the suburbs.
The hour of glory of Samarkand occurred two centuries later, when Timour made the capital of its empire. the marvelous madrasas of the Registan (XV-XV-XVIIe century) decorated with dazzling mosaic, will enable us to better determine the multiple influences which mark the evolution of timouride architecture.
After the famous mosque of Bibi Khanum, it is the glory of Timourides which we will celebrate in front of the mausoleum of Shakhi- Zinda. At side of the mausoleum of Roukhabad raises up the Gour-Emir, the tomb of the greatest conqueror contains the remaining of Timour, his sons and his grandsons.
The Museum of Samarkand presents us the history of the Central Asia and the observatory of Oulougbek (XVe), built on the Kouhak mount shows us the attractive personality of the grandson of Timour, sovereign, poet, philosopher and astronomer. Dinner. Overnight.
Continuation excursion program in Samarkand:
The dinner. Overnight.
After the breakfast transfert to Bukhara.270km. Accommodation at the hotel in Bukhara. Lunch.
This city, located in the valley of Zerafshan, always keeps its authentic charm. It was one of the significant cities of the Road of Silk, where all the tradesmen precipitated to sell their goods, in particular the carpets and the jewels.
Although Islam was born elsewhere, it is Bukhara which was the hearth of development of this religion. The city shelters hundreds of Islamic schools, the madrasas, and as many mosques and tombs of saints, such as Bahouviddin Naqshbandy who was the famous creator one of the branches of Suffism.
Visit of:
Breakfast. At this day we continue our visit in Bukhara the Saint. Visitng of khanako (place where sufi lived and gathered together to pray, to meditate, to discuss about God and True Path):
Lunch.
City tour:
Breakfast.This day we will do a piligrim tour to 7 graves of great Sufi teachers:
We will visit graves of this people and talk with their followers, listen to mystic stories about them.
Dinner. Overnight.
Transfer to Bukhara neighborhood to visit the real places where people during the centuries get treatment with water from the holy sources next to the Sufis graves.
The women Sufi’s khonaka Kiz Bibi, where 40 virgins lived and where woman can get treatment from barrenness. Visiting of Hodja Ubbon Mausoleum, Hodja Zaffaron’s Tomb in the desert places.
Flight to Tashkent. Accommodation at the hotel.
Transfer to airport, flight to homeland.
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