Transfer from Khiva to Bukhara via 50 fortresses

Transfer from Khiva to Bukhara via 50 fortresses. Meet your driver at the reception lobby of your hotel with sign of your name and transfer to Bukhara via fortresses

Check out from the hotel and transfer to Bukhara by car crossing the river Amu Darya (in the antique called Oxus) and the desert Kizilkum.

Qala trip (“Fortress” in Uzbek)

After breakfast transfer to Bukhara via the Qala trip (“Fortress” in Uzbek) total drive 640 km. The ruins of over a dozen walled towns, palaces and forts, some well over 2000 years old, stand half-forgotten in the semi-desert east and north of Urgench in southern Karakalpakstan. The area’s traditionally name, Ellik Qala (the 50 fortresses) gives a stark indication of what lies beneath the desert sands. There are about 20 forts and you will visit three of the most impressive forts: Toprak Qala and Ayaz Qala.

Ayaz Qala— is a “must see” fort in the desert. The external walls, built upon a flat hilltop, have survived since at least the 4^th century BC, the guests can clearly see the scale of the site and even today sections of wall survive that are 10 meters high. After forts sightseeing transfer to the Khiva and check in to the hotel.

Toprak Qala (“Sand” in Uzbek)— used to be the region’s biggest city (350 meters by 500 meters) until the destruction canals left it marooned in the desert sands. The Russian archaeologist Tolstov excavated the palace friezes in 1938 dating from the 2^nd and 3^rd century AD.

Kyzyl Qala (“Red fortress” in Uzbek)— located in modern Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan and it was an ancient fortress in Khorazm built in the 1^st -4^th centuries AD. Kyzyl Qala fortress buried in the desert for centuries before being discovered by Professor Tolstov in 1938.