TOUR OVERVIEW
This is called the comprehensive tour for a reason! We'll really explore these two countries from top to bottom, side to side, and inside out.
Beginning in Ashgabat, the white and gold capital city of Turkmenistan, you'll get a feel for what this unique country is all about. From here we'll venture into the desert to the Gates of Hell, before continuing on to some less famous things outside of Ashgabat.
Not only will we spend a night at the Ashgabat-esque glitzy-yet-abandoned resort town of Avaza, and drive out to the desert to see Yangykala Canyon, but we'll also explore Koytendag in the far east of the country where we'll swim in hot springs, climb through a gorge, stand under a freezing cold waterfall, throw cloth onto the walls of the bizarre Kyrk Gyz Cave, get goat massages, and best of all - hike up onto the Dinosaur Plateau.
Next we'll cross the land border into Uzbekistan where we'll wander the streets of the old town of Bukhara before really leaving civilisation again to drive out to what remains of the ever-receding Aral Sea. Next we'll spend a couple of nights in the surprisingly exciting and cosmpolitan city of Tashkent and then a couple of SAIGA favourites - a night at a sanatorium next to a former closed Soviet mining town, and a private tour of the world's second largest Solar Furnace. From here we'll catch the fast train to Samarkand, before finally ending our epic adventure in Tashkent.
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If you'd like to do either country on this tour but don't have time to do the whole thing at once, check out our
Turkmenistan Comprehensive Tour
and our Uzbekistan Comprehensive Tour.
It can also be done in conjunction with our
Kazakhstan Polygon Tour
.
If you like the look of this tour but the dates don't work for you, or you'd like to do part of the tour, please
get in touch
and let us know. All our tours are able to be split into smaller sections, we're always scheduling new tours and your dates might work for one of them, or we can always organise an independent tour.