Samarkand
The Registan at dusk, when the tiles turn from blue to violet and the tour buses have gone. Timur's capital, and still the most photographed square in Central Asia.
Uzbekistan · September 2026
Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva in warm days and cool evenings — before the crowds of spring and after the heat of summer. Private tours run by our own guides and our own vehicles, as they have been for twenty years.
The Registan at dusk, when the tiles turn from blue to violet and the tour buses have gone. Timur's capital, and still the most photographed square in Central Asia.
A living old town rather than a museum — traders in the same domed bazaars their families have worked for centuries, and the Kalyan minaret that Genghis Khan reportedly refused to destroy.
The most complete walled city on the Silk Road. Small enough to walk end to end before breakfast, and best seen from the walls as the sun comes up over the desert.
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