Fergana Valley private tour from Tashkent by train
Fergana Valley private tour from Tashkent by train. Nowadays the majority of silk is made large factories and most of these are in China. However, it is still possible to see traditional methods of weaving along the Silk Road. One of the best-known places is in Margilan in the Fergana Valley, where visitors are welcome to tour in a small factory.
You learn difference between artificial and real silk (Real silk is warmer to the touch, is more tightly woven and if you care to set fire to a piece, will turn into an ashen ball and smell like burning hair)
The cocoon itself consists of a single filament of raw silk up to 1,000 metres (3,000 ft) long.
You see the reeling process in the factory, where the cocoons are immersed in hot water which make them easier to unwind. The filaments from several different cocoons are then combined to produce a silk thread.
ITINERARY AND DETAILS
Day 1
Fergana Valley private tour from Tashkent by train starts in Tashkent
Meet your driver at 6.50 transfer to the train station of Tashkent and the train leaves at 7.54 am (on the way train stations: Orzu, Pop, Kokand, Margilan) and reaches Margilan at 13.23.
Margilan
Meet outside of train station building by driver and local guide start sightseeing
Yodgorlik Silk Factory
Nowadays the majority of silk is made large factories and most of these are in China. However, it is still possible to see traditional methods of weaving along the Silk Road. One of the best-known places is in Margilan in the Fergana Valley, where visitors are welcome to tour in a small factory.
Rishtan
Rishtan town is famous for its blue-and-green ceramics and the oldest center of ceramic art in Central Asia. Visit one of the pottery studio of the town.
Kokand
Drive to Kokand for overnight
Day 2
Kokand (sightseeing) and take the train back to Tashkent
Fergana Valley private tour from Tashkent by train day 2 starts with Palace of Khudáyár Khán
Palace of Khudáyár Khán
Today the tour starts at 11:00 am The most impressive sight of Kokand is the Khudayar Khan Palace , one of the most glittering royal residences in Central Asia. The Palace originally had got 113 rooms set around seven courtyards and this days visiters can visit 19 of rooms which is remained.
Jami Mosque
Juma Mosque— Juma Mosque in Kokand was built by King Umar Khan between 1809 and 1812, and it was the khan’s primary place of worship. The mosque remained shut for most the 20th century, but reopened after much-needed restoration in 1989. There is a minaret and 98 glorious redwood columns, carved and imported from India
Norbut-Biya Madrasah
Norbutabey Madrasa built in the 1790s, has an attached graveyard (Dahmai shakhan or cemetery of the khans) that includes the Modari Khan Mausoleum where Omar Khan and his wife, the poet Nadira Begim, are entombed. Built in 1825, it has a grand entry portal with an ornate mosaic of blue glazed tiles.
Tashkent
Transfer to the train station of Kokand and the train leaves at 17.31 pm and reaches Tashkent at 21.48
