TRAVELS ALONG THE GREAT SILK ROAD
Great Silk Road is a thread connecting the two worlds - West and
East, the two cultures European and Asiatic. It is in the Central Asia
that the most difficult and interesting part of the trip is situated. Going
along it after ancient merchants and travellers, you will see:
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Samarkand - the city with 3000 years history,
with its burial-vault of great Timur and observatory of Ulugbek, palaces,
squares, mosques.
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Tashkent - the capital of Uzbekistan, which
absorbed the Asiatic and European features.
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Dzhambul - a town amidst endless Kazakh steppe.
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Bishkek - the capital of Kirghizstan, a garden-city
at the foot of snow white mountains of Kirghiz Ala-Too. You will see Burana
Tower - a memorial of the Empire
of powerful karakhanids which is guarded by dozens of stone idols. And
at last the pearl of Central Asia - the Issyk-Kul lake. It is situated
at the altitude of 1608 m between mountain summits which are covered with
forests of Tien-Shan spruces. It is a wonderful place for rest, before
Great Silk Road crosses grand Tien-Shan ranges - Terskey Ala-Too, Kokshal-Too
and Naryn river. Then Great Caravan Path goes up to the altitude of 2000
m. Here one can see Alpine desert, stones and rocks and at Chatyr-Kul lake
the path reaches Torugart pass. Here at the altitude of 3600 m the border
post and custom-house to cross Kirghiz border to China are situated. Then
mysterious country Kashgar spreads. From this point Silk Road leads through
Urumqi to Peking.
"ITMC Tien - Shan" offers some modulus programmes along the Great
Silk Road, each of them may become the part of more complex programme of
"dominoes principle".
TSEM - 1 Almaty - Issyk-Kul -
Bishkek - Almaty.
Day 1: Arrival in Almaty. Accommodation
in a hotel. Sightseeing.
Day 2: Transfer Almaty - the Issyk-Kul
lake 400 km - 8 hours. Accommodation in a health resort. Rest.
Day 3: Rest by the Issyk-kul lake.
Day 4: Trip to mountains. Visit
to jurtas, seeing the customs of local people.
Day 5: Transfer Issyk-Kul - Bishkek
300 km - 6 hours. On the way visit to the historical memorial - Burana
Tower. Accommodation in a hotel.
Day 6: Excursion to the Ala-Archa
gorge and about the city.
Day 7: Transfer to Almaty. Departure.
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