Two cars (one sedan and one 4x4) will serve during this round trip to Aral Sea shore and fortresses. Total, over 1`200 kms will be driven in three days. 19 important touristic destinations will be visited (: Chilpik kala fortress, Savitsky museum, Muynak ship cemetery, Muynak Museum, Aral Sea shore, Ustyurt Canyons, Kurgancha kala, Urga, Qibla Ustyurt, Sudoche lake, Mizdakhan Necrapolis, Amudarya river, Ayazkala, Tuprakkala, Kyzylkala, Duman kala, Guldursun kala, Koi Krylgan kala, Angka kala ). Experienced drivers drive smoothly in the desert conditions. Key visitable areas are included while the tour can start or finish in Khiva, Urgench or Nukus cities, upon the desire of the visitor. Cust...
Highlights
3 days
Offered in English
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
3 days
Offered in English
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Private transportation
Hotel pick up and drop off
Air-conditioned vehicle
Audio guide materials
Aral Sea Museum (in Muynak) - entrance ticket is USD 3/person
Savitsky museum (Nukus) entrance ticket is USD 7/person
Aral Sea yurt camp: USD 40; Ayazkala yurt camp USD 50. Total:
Lunch
Entrance fee for fortresses (each around USD 2)
Meeting Points
Departure
Ota Gate
We can meet the visitor at Ota Darvoza, Western gate in Ichan Qala, Khiva
Return
Important Information
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Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
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Disclaimer: transportation time is included in the total duration
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Minimum age is 15 for this tour
Cancellation policy
If you cancel at least 3 full day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.<br>If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.
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This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
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The age of this Zoroastrian ancient monument - dakhma Chilpyk (Shylpyk, Chilpak Kala) is more than 2200 years. Chilpyk is a round roofless tower, 15 meters high and 65 meters in diameter, built at the top of the rounded natural hill, 43 km away from Nukus. The Zoroastrians used it for burial of the dead. The remains of the deceased were thrown in the tower to the birds of prey. Later the bones were collected in earthenware vessels-ossuaries and dug into the ground. This way of disposal was connected with the Zoroastrian philosophy, which prohibited defiling the land with corrupted bodies.
30 minutes
2
The Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art named after I.V. Savitsky
The Nukus Museum of Art, or more properly the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitsky, is located in Nukus, Karakalpakstan. It possesses the world’s second largest collection of Russian avant-garde artworks, as well as galleries of antiquities and Karakalpak folk art. The State Museum of Arts of Karakalpakstan was founded in 1966 at the initiative of Moscow artist Igor Vitalievich Savitsky (1915-1984). The museum holds the largest art collection in Central Asia, and its approximately 100,000 items provide chronological coverage of more than four millennia.
1 hour
3
Aral Sea
Aral Sea shore is a place to swim, to observe the local climate, environment from the hills , rocks which were previously part of the Aral Sea
1 hour
4
Ships Cemetery
Hidden in one of the most obscure corners of the former Soviet Union lies one of its darkest secrets; the disappearance, in a single lifetime, of the Aral Sea (Orol Dengizi), once the fourth largest inland sea in the world. Moynaq (population 12,000), 210km north of Nukus, encapsulates more visibly than anywhere the absurd tragedy of the Aral Sea. Once one of the sea’s two major fishing ports, it now stands some 180km from the water. What remains of Moynaq’s fishing fleet lies rusting on the sand in the former seabed.
Muynak (Moynoq, in Uzbek Latin, Mojnak in Karakalpak) was once the largest port on the Aral, a finger of coast where a significant part of the Aral catch was processed and canned.
1 hour
5
The Regional History and Aral Sea Museum
The Muynak Regional Studies Museum also known as Ecological Museum of Muynak can be called one of the most unique museums in Uzbekistan. This museum, modest by metropolitan standards, with less than two hundred exhibits, tells the visitors a tragic story of the bygone era, when things were humming in this region and the Aral Sea was so large and affluent that it was called as sea.
Two cars (one sedan and one 4x4) will serve during this round trip to Aral Sea shore and fortresses. Total, over 1`200 kms will be driven in three days. 19 important touristic destinations will be visited (: Chilpik kala fortress, Savitsky museum, Muynak ship cemetery, Muynak Museum, Aral Sea shore, Ustyurt Canyons, Kurgancha kala, Urga, Qibla Ustyurt, Sudoche lake, Mizdakhan Necrapolis, Amudarya river, Ayazkala, Tuprakkala, Kyzylkala, Duman kala, Guldursun kala, Koi Krylgan kala, Angka kala ). Experienced drivers drive smoothly in the desert conditions. Key visitable areas are included while the tour can start or finish in Khiva, Urgench or Nukus cities, upon the desire of the visitor. Cust...
Highlights
3 days
Offered in English
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
3 days
Offered in English
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Private transportation
Hotel pick up and drop off
Air-conditioned vehicle
Audio guide materials
Aral Sea Museum (in Muynak) - entrance ticket is USD 3/person
Savitsky museum (Nukus) entrance ticket is USD 7/person
Aral Sea yurt camp: USD 40; Ayazkala yurt camp USD 50. Total:
Lunch
Entrance fee for fortresses (each around USD 2)
Meeting Points
Departure
Ota Gate
We can meet the visitor at Ota Darvoza, Western gate in Ichan Qala, Khiva