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Your guide and driver will meet you this morning and take you back to the airport for your flight over the vast and inhospitable Kyzylkum Desert to Urgench. From here, you will be driven to the infamous walled city of Khiva.

Spend today exploring the alleyways, courtyards and mosques in the small city within Khiva's city walls with your private guide.

A further day to explore Khiva at leisure.

Leaving Khiva this morning, you will be driven through the endless sands of the Kyzylkum Desert to the Holy City of Bukhara today. En route, cross the mighty Amu Darya, which takes you into Transoxiana.

Explore the highlights of Bukhara with your private guide and driver today, including the ominous Ark where Conolly and Stoddart famously met their fate in 1848.

From Bukhara, you will be driven to Samarkand today, breaking the journey at Tamerlane's former hometown of Shakhrisabz on the way. Arrive in Samarkand later this afternoon.

Spend today with your guide visiting the main sights of Samarkand including the Avenue of Tombs, the Bibi-Khanym Mosque and the humbling Registan Square.

Today is at leisure in Samarkand to explore as you wish or to photograph this most photogenic of cities.

Return to Tashkent today for your return flight. Your return flight will arrive the same day.