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 | Khiva may be a small city -- its population barely tops 40,000 -- but its history as the best preserved stop on the old Silk Road gives it a broad appeal for tourists tracing the historic trading route. In the Khorezm oasis of the Kara-Kum Desert, Khiva was the capital of the Khivan Khanate from 1592 until the Bolshevik take-over in 1920. |  | Khiva is the brightest stone in the necklace of ancient Khorezm, a great and glorious civilization of the past that developed in the lower reaches of Amudarya. Khiva's inner city, so called Ichan-Kala, is a unique museum in the open with gorgeous architectural ensembles and majolica-decorated monuments. |  | The inner city is surrounded by a clay wall (more than two kilometers long and 5-6 meters thick) with four gate entrances. The West Gate (Ata Darvaza) has two brick turrets. Bagcha Gates lead to Urgench, recent capital of Khorezm, Palvan Gates to Amudarya and further eastward, and Tash Gates southward. |  | The smallest madrassah and the tallest minaret tower are neighbours in the Complex of Islam Khodja (1908). The intention of the artisans was to have a tower that travelers would see from far away when approaching the city. The builders of the minaret undertook its construction with an ambitious task to surpass Bukhara's Kalyan Minaret and used ancient traditions of building minarets as narrow towers. |  | The buildings are generously decorated with ceramic tiles, carved stone and ganch, carved plaster. Inner premises, unlike the main yard, underwent little restoration and tourists can make their way through a maze of dark galleries and corridors to see splendid inside mosques and palaces. | |
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Grand Uzbekistan tour
Duration: 15days/14nightsRoute: Tashkent - Urgench - Khiva - Bukhara –Yangikazgan- Samarkand- Shakhrisabz – Tashkent
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Mountains and Historical sites
Destination: UzbekistanRoute: Tashkent, Charvak, Bukhara, Shakhrisabz, Samarkand, TashkentDuration: 8 daysDay 1 Tashkent –
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Architectural pearls of Central Asia
Duration: 6days/5nightsRoute: Tashkent - Samarkand - Shakhrisabz- Bukhara – Tashkent1 day. TashkentArrival to Tashkent. S
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